Fear Is the Key (1972) on Netflix
PG19721h 43mActionCrimeDramaThriller
After his family's plane is machine-gunned out of the sky, John Talbot wants the men responsible. He becomes a wanted criminal to get aboard the crew salvaging the wreck's cargo.
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Plot summary
John Talbot is talking on the radio with the woman and the man flying the plane when another aircraft machine-guns them. He wants the people who did it found and punished. Wanted in a Louisiana town for a bank robbery and the killing of a policeman, he is caught and tried, then escapes from the courtroom and takes Sarah Ruthven with him. A car chase follows, and a mysterious man, Jablonsky, gets them to Sarah's father, an oil millionaire. Vyland, who works for her father, hires Talbot for a task he does not explain and keeps Jablonsky to watch him. The men who shot down the plane have asked the millionaire to help retrieve its cargo, and Talbot aims to be the diver who goes down to the wreck.
Cast
- James Berwickas (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fear Is the Key (1972)
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- Alistair MacLean, whose 1961 novel Fear Is the Key the film adapts, said in 1969 that it would never be a movie, calling it his best writing but too expensive to film.
- Barry Newman believed he may have been cast as the lead in Fear Is the Key because he had starred in Vanishing Point (1971), whose car chase was staged by Carey Loftin, the man hired to choreograph this film's chase.
- The 1972 British action thriller Fear Is the Key, starring Barry Newman and Suzy Kendall, was the feature film debut of Ben Kingsley.
