North Sea Hijack

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Supplements are limited to a trailer and an audio commentary track, this time featuring film historians Howard S.

This ironic statement is explained in the novel Esther Ruth and Jennifer by Jack Davies, in Chapter 1. Moore is allowed to actually act, granted with tongue firmly in cheek, and show that he could do more than just be James Bond. John Richardson, who worked on the visual effects of Moore's Bond film Moonraker that same year, supervised the elaborate miniature effects. 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). Despite a seemingly low budget and predictable 'action' sequences, it's worth seeing this film just to listen to the great lines Moore delivers.while government minister Tipping is obviously Michael Heseltine but this contrasts with such ridiculous things as no one seemingly to have heard of the Special Boat Squadron ( the naval SAS )and instead we're supposed to believe that Ffoulkes freelance outfit would be assigned a task like this .

Ingenious, conceited, and menacing as Kramer is, Perkins doesn't have as much to work with in his characterization as Moore. In comes wealthy and eccentric Roger Moore to lead a crack team of commandos to stop the fiendish plan.

One of the best was this 1979 adventure (it was released in 1980 in the US under the title "Ffolkes") in which Moore stars as an eccentric British adventurer with a disdain for women and a fondness for cats. So it's no wonder, that his role as Rufus Excalibur Ffolkes is miles away from 007, but it's still Moore.

Licensed from Universal, Kino's Blu-ray of ffolkes looks very good, comparable to the transfer used for release in Europe a few years back. One of the interesting things here is we never do learn just what the escape plan for the hijackers is. The story centers around Rufus Excalibur (Moore); a heavy drinking, confident, cocky and intelligent specialist. ffolkes is a very different character to James Bond, he is somewhat eccentric and can't stand women but likes cats.Esther's crew tries to fight back, but is thwarted by Kramer's vigilance, and two of their number end up dead. 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. McLaglen with star Roger Moore who had worked together on ¨The Wild Geese¨ , they would work together again on ¨The Sea Wolves¨, their third and final movie together. Of course the real world isn't so structured but it's nice to relax once in a while and allow our heads a playful descent into the vulgate. The bearded, curmudgeonly ffolkes favors Edwardian suits, does petit point and loves Scotch and cats.

It was released as North Sea Hijack in the United Kingdom but in the United States and other English-speaking territories it was re-titled ffolkes. Also, see it because it is still a solid movie after 22 years and I still am entertained after 20+ viewings.Roger Moore gives a pleasing performance as the woman hating, arrogant and irascible Ffolkes, who is the complete antithesis of his version of Bond. I suppose you're one of those fellows who does The Times crossword puzzle in ten minutes," remarks Admiral Brindsen. The final attack takes only a few seconds, with Kramer not even knowing anything was happening until he is shot. 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. 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.