A blackmail thriller from 1958 starring James Mason. A commercial airplane lands suddenly because of a bomb threat. The FBI are brought in to investigate & a plot is unraveled where a blackmailer has threatened another bomb detonation unless a ransom is paid. Hearing the news on the radio, a worried engineer, played by Mason, fears a recent construction sample of his may've been used to construct the device which prompts the blackmailers, led by Rod Steiger, to kidnap Mason & his daughter while his wife, played by Inger Stevens, must go to the powers that be at the airlines to collect the cash. A taut thriller using actual New York locations serve this film well as the ever present ticking clock (particularly during a sequence where the wife has to make it back to the blackmailers' lair by a certain time plays like gangbusters) ratchets up the suspense as the situations becomes more dire & desperate. Co-starring Angie Dickinson, Jack Klugman & Neville Brand as the rest of Steiger's crew w/Kenneth Tobey as the lead Fibbie in charge.
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