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- Filming took place in mid 1972.
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Fear Is the Key is a 1972 British action thriller film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Barry Newman and Suzy Kendall. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same title by Alistair MacLean. It was the feature film debut of Ben Kingsley. The soundtrack is by Roy Budd.
Dec 26, 1972 · With Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet. A man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as a deep sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Michael Tuchner
- 1972-12-26
As this underrated British film from 1972 opens, we watch and listen to a man (Barry Newman) on a short-wave radio talking to a small cargo plane flying somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly the plane’s pilot screams out that another aircraft is firing on them.
Robert Carrington. Screenplay. Reviews. Written by Peter McGinn on February 26, 2023. A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.
Fear is the Key (1972) Most movie versions of Alistair MacLean's novels fall into a few categories: high-profile hits (The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare); dreary messes (The Secret Ways, Bear Island); or decent lesser-known adaptations (The Satan Bug, When Eight Bells Toll).
Fear Is the Key is a 1972 film directed by Michael Tuchner and based on the 1961 the novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. The protagonist, Talbot, was played by Barry Newman, and the millionaire's daughter Sarah Ruthven by Suzy Kendall.
Film rights were bought by producer Elliott Kastner who had filmed a number of MacLean novels. MacLean wrote the scripts for the two earlier Kastner films, Where Eagles Dare and Where Eight Bells Toll but was too busy to do the script for Fear is the Key so the job went to Robert Carrington.
