North Sea Hijack

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Moore is brought in to thwart them, and plays a tense psychological games with his adversaries, constantly provoking them and second guessing their actions whilst trying to ascertain the most effective way to attack them aboard their vessel.

Ffolkes runs a small but efficient group of mercenaries that he trains ruthlessly to perform miracles under the worst conditions. The supporting is great, too, with James Mason a joy to watch for his bemused reactions to ffolkes's larger-than-life personality quirks; Michael Parks as Kramer's hypermetropic lieutenant; David Hedison (who'd played Felix Leiter opposite Moore in Live and Let Die) as an oil rig supervisor; Faith Brook as the Thatcher-esque P. Kramer's second-in-command sets explosives throughout the ship and connects them to a detonator box that can signal the destruction of not only Esther but also the charges set on Ruth and Jennifer. All in all, "North Sea Hijack" is the perfect action thriller for a stormy and rainy autumn evening in front of your TV set.The best about the film is Roger Moore's Ffolks - a cat-loving, alcohol-drinking, women-hating, bearded Englishmen without a sense of humor and gentleness. An English admiral (James Mason) needs an eccentric lord (Roger Moore) and his frogmen to save oil rigs and a ship from a mad bomber (Anthony Perkins). ffolkes enacts his plan by traveling to Jennifer as the aide of Admiral Brindsen, who was tasked by the Prime Minister to supervise the operation. Its always been one of my guilty pleasures and its often a film I'll watch on a rainy do nothing sort of Sunday. If Jennifer, the production platform, and Ruth, a nearby drilling platform, which Kramer has mined are destroyed, a good deal of British North Sea oil production will go up in smoke with them.

The locations, apparently mostly in Ireland and off the Irish coast, are likewise visually spectacular.The action also seems more realistic than most films, a no point do our heroes go in all guns blazing instead they negotiate with the criminals until they are ready to go in stealthily.

Masquerading as journalists, the villainous Lou Kramer (Anthony Perkins of "Psycho") and henchmen Harold Shulman (Michael Parks), board Esther, brandish this hardware and hijack it. In contrast to those parts, he portrays a bearded, eccentric, arrogant, cat-loving chauvinist with master strategist skills who does needlepoint embroidery and drinks scotch whisky as if it were water. We leave ffolkes with an award from the British government, delivered to him in Scotland by the Prime Minister herself.Furthermore , he holds the honor of filmmaking the most episodes of ¨Have gun , Will travel" (1957). If the British Crown refuses to fork over, Kramer threatens to blast Esther, Ruth and Jennifer, along with himself and his henchmen, and more than 600 innocent people aboard the rigs and ship off the face of the earth. Almost equally good is Anthony Perkins's no-nonsense villain, whose own considerable intelligence trips up ffolkes a couple of times, enough to keep the movie tense and exciting throughout. Soon after, Lou Kramer (Anthony Perkins) leads a band who, masquerading as members of the press, hijack the Norwegian supply ship Esther, planting explosive devices on her and limpet mines on Jennifer, a production platform, and its drilling rig, Ruth, issuing a ransom demand of 25 million pounds in five different currencies.

Worth watching once, but if I had to choose between rewatching North Sea Hijack or going to see a firework display on a very rainy night. Also, see it because it is still a solid movie after 22 years and I still am entertained after 20+ viewings. There is a female lead as one of the captives who, though not dressed sexy, is somehow incredibly hot. The bearded, curmudgeonly ffolkes favors Edwardian suits, does petit point and loves Scotch and cats.Instead of simply shooting up the place, ffolkes excellently manipulates Kramer as his team prepares to strike. This ironic statement is explained in the novel Esther Ruth and Jennifer by Jack Davies, in Chapter 1.