Top Cast
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Glenn Ford
David G. 'Dave' Stannard
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Donna Reed
Edith Stannard
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Leslie Nielsen
Charlie Telfer
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Juano Hernández
Jesse Chapman aka Uncle Jesse
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Robert Keith
Police Chief Jim Backett
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Richard Gaines
Langly
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Mabel Albertson
Mrs. Partridge
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Alexander Scourby
Dr. Paul Y. Gorman
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Lori March
Elizabeth Stannard
Overview
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
Rating
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When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.
Trapped
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course of one long night, Paul and his accomplices hold the rich kids hostage awaiting the ransom with little idea of the secrets that will surface between the fathers when they are forced to choose between their children and their money.
The Entitled
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed
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All the Money in the World
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The Night of the Following Day
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
The Yakuza
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Palmetto
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Changeling
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
John Q
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.