De la part des copains

"Bronson and Mason play a high stakes game of cat and mouse . . . and only one man can walk away the winner"

Jun 1 1974 PG 1h 34m
Action, Crime, Drama

During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he encounters his former company commander Captain Ross, jailed for black marketeering. Together with Ross' cohorts Joe agrees to escape with them, but things go wrong and a policeman is killed. An appalled Joe escapes by himself, abandoning the others, who are recaptured. Years later Joe has a boat rental business where he is found by Ross. Now a wanted drug smuggler he wants the use of Joe's boats and to ensure his cooperation, they kidnap his wife and daughter.

Plot

Joe Martin, a quiet American, lives a quiet life in the South of France renting boats to tourists. He is happily married to Fabienne and has a twelve-year-old daughter named Michèle. But the quiet man has a past: ten years before, Joe (then Moran) had escaped with four other convicts, among whom the sadistic ex-mercenary Katanga. Seeing the latter brutally kill an M. P., Joe had abandoned his accomplices and left with the car. One night, Captain Ross, Katanga, Whitey and Fausto re-appear..

Written by

Richard Matheson, Shimon Wincelberg, Albert Simonin

Directed by

Terence Young

Cast

Charles Bronson, James Mason, Liv Ullmann

Crew

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Production Countries

Italy, France, Belgium

Production Companies

Fair Film, Les Films Corona, Emerson Film Enterprises, Belgique Ciné

Languages

English, Français, Italiano

Awards

N/A

Trailers
Cold Sweat (1970) ORIGINAL TRAILER
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