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Ransom, known as The Terrorists in some countries, is a 1974 Eastmancolor film starring Sean Connery and Ian McShane and directed by Finnish director Caspar Wrede. The plot concerns a group of terrorists who try to extract a large sum of money from two governments.

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Plot

A small group of terrorists have seized the British ambassador to the fictitious country of "Scandinavia", and are holding him hostage in his residence. Scandinavia's head of security, Col. Nils Tahlvik (Sean Connery), wants to take an uncompromising position, but he is overruled by the governments of both Scandinavia and Britain, who insist that all of the terrorists' demands be met.

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A passenger airplane arriving at the airport of Scandinavia's capital city is hijacked by another small group of (purported) terrorists, led by Ray Petrie (Ian McShane). The airplane ends up parked on an isolated taxiway, and Petrie demands that he be put in touch with Martin Shepherd (John Quentin), leader of the group holding the British ambassador hostage. Petrie, who is known by Shepherd, convinces Shepherd that his group and his hostages should leave on the hijacked airplane, not on a military plane as originally planned.

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Tahlvik and his group of military commandos make several attempts to thwart the terrorists' plans, but nothing seems to work out for them. At the last minute, Tahlvik figures out that the "terrorists" on the airplane are actually British secret operatives intent on capturing Martin Shepherd, and that the British officials have been misleading the Scandinavian authorities and undermining Tahlvik's efforts to capture the two terrorist groups. He boards the airplane alone just before it is to take off, precipitating a shootout between the two groups that leaves both Shepherd and Petrie dead.

Cast

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Sean Connery as Col. Nils Tahlvik

Ian McShane as Ray Petrie

Jeffry Wickham as Capt. Frank Barnes

Isabel Dean as Mrs. Palmer

John Quentin as Martin Shepherd

Robert Harris as Ambassador Palmer

James Maxwell as Bernhard

William Fox as Ferris

Harry Landis as Lookout Pilot - George Rawlings

Norman Bristow as Capt. Denver

John Cording as Bert

Christopher Ellison as Pete

Richard Hampton as Joe

Preston Lockwood as Brigadier Hislop

Karen Maxwell as Eva

Production

According to Michael Deeley, managing director of British Lion Films, the movie was made for $1.5 million, which was covered by US and Canadian rights being bought by 20th Century Fox for $800,000, and the rights for the rest of the world being sold for $1 million.

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Filming was carried out in Norway, with a large part of the filming taking place at Oslo Airport, Fornebu. Technical services were contracted to Norsk Film. The aircraft displayed in the hijacking is a Boeing 737-200 in the livery of Mey-Air. Production started in January 1974. During production, Mey-Air defaulted on their payments to Boeing Commercial Aircraft, who sent representatives to Fornebu to repossess the aircraft on 26 February. Filming of the aircraft shots had begun but were not completed.