Richard Attenborough stars as Ernest Tilley, a man whose young daughter was killed in a hit and run accident two years prior to the day this takes place.
Tilley is grief stricken and he follows the man who did it onto an airplane and threatens to blow up the plane in an act of revenge against the man who killed his daughter as well as against the entire world.
Stanley Baker is the pilot named Bardow, who tries to find out where Tilley has hidden the bomb. This plays out very well and Attenborough is perfect as the insane Tilley.
Of course, in movies like this there are various sub-plots about some of the passengers, but it still works well. There is one shocking scene involving the man Tilley accuses of killing his daughter and an open window on the aircraft at 40,000 feet.
I found myself enjoying this movie and got pretty wrapped up in it. The rest of the cast includes Diane Cilento, Barbara Kelly, David Kossoff, Virginia Maskell, Elizabeth Sellars, Mai Zetterling, Marty Wilde, Patrick Allen, Megs Jenkins, Jocelyn Lane and Hermoine Baddeley.
This obscure little movie is available on Region 2 DVD, but has yet to make it to US shores, but you can catch it on TUBI if you're interested.
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