This is a very well made and interesting film. The director Richard Lester filmed on an actual ship much like Andrew Stone did for The Last Voyage. Lester put together a very good cast of actors and managed to get decent performances out of all of them. Harris is his usual flamboyant self, Omar Sharif effectively underplays his part as the Captain, and Anthony Hopkins as the Scotland Yard detective actually keeps the facial ticks and quirks under control for a change.
The big problem with Juggernaut is that it is not The Poseidon Adventure it is too classy and polished for the film crowd that gravitates to the goofy disaster genre. All the cliches are present in Juggernaut like the little kid in danger, the detective whose wife is on board the ship etc. What Lester does with these cliches is to underplay them which makes for an interesting approach to the film, however it also kind of saps all the corny melodrama out of the story which is one of the major reasons for watching disaster movies.
Written by Richard Allen Simmons and Alan Plater, the running time is 109 minutes.
Ultimately Juggernaut is a somewhat unsatisfactory film. Richard Lester made a good film but his desire to upgrade the genre took away most of the entertainment value of the story.
109 minutes.
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You forgot to talk about Clifton James performance.
and what about Holm
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