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Fear Is the Key

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A deep-sea salvager (Barry Newman) kidnaps an oil heiress (Suzy Kendall) in a scheme to trap killers seeking gems in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Emilie Black Cinema Crazed 03/12/2024
3/5
Overall, Fear is the Key is an uneven film with a great first third that really gets the viewer into the story and then it gets slow, leading to a loss of interest. Go to Full Review
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David W 07/19/2023 A very well made adaptation of the Alistair MacLean novel. A great example of a quality early 70's action suspense movie with excellent car chases, acting, location use, music, some effective plot twists and a hirsute Ben Kingsley. What more do you want on a Sunday afternoon? See more 11/04/2020 Well acted but a little long and drawn out See more delysid d 05/17/2020 this is a pretty cool film. its the kind of made for TV action film that they don't make anymore See more 07/21/2018 An excellent Maclean film adaption, the suspense towards the end is kept on the boil nicely-there's a decent car chase too See more 04/05/2016 This is not the best or easiest Alistair MacLean story to try and transfer to film, but a fair job has been made of it. You also get to see Ben Kingsley with hair! See more 01/29/2015 Talbot is one hard cunt. A quality car chase at the start and the ending is fucking mental it's like James Bond on acid. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis A deep-sea salvager (Barry Newman) kidnaps an oil heiress (Suzy Kendall) in a scheme to trap killers seeking gems in the Gulf of Mexico.
Director
Michael Tuchner
Producer
Jay Kanter, Alan Ladd Jr.
Screenwriter
Robert Carrington, Alistair MacLean
Production Co
Anglo-EMI
Rating
PG
Genre
Action
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 24, 2015
Runtime
1h 45m
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