Juggernaut (1974)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Lt. Co. Anthony Fallon	Richard Harris
Captain Alex Brunel	Omar Sharif
Charlie Braddock	David Hemmings	½
Superintendent John McLeod	Anthony Hopkins	½
Barbara Bannister	Shirley Knight
Nicholas Porter	Ian Holm	½
Corrigan	Clifton James
Social Director Curtain	Roy Kinnear
Susan McLeod	Caroline Mortimer
Commander Marder	Julian Glover

Review

A brash Richard Lester opens this British semi-camouflaged disaster film with in-your-face artsy takes and cuts which are ostensibly unnarrative. He hasn't got as good a hold of this tactic as he may have thought he did, because many of these early scenes are also not very atmospheric. But once the premise really kicks in and Lester finds he needs to get industrious, Juggernaut indeed becomes the suspense-filled genre-movie its writer, Richard DeKoker, undoubtedly had in mind. And the plot is more than clever enough to keep us interested, despite some dubious political insinuations and an overload of irony and attempted comedy which never really hits the mark. The young and likeable Anthony Hopkins and Ian Holm give apt performances which make Richard Harris' overzealous lead seem somewhat forced, even if his commanding presence still makes it effective.