Fear Is the Key

“In the right hands, fear is the deadliest weapon of all.”

Nobody on the shore yet knows why John Talbot (Barry Newman), a deep-sea salvage expert, has set an elaborate plan in motion to get inside a criminal organization that once did him a foul wrong. Michael Tuchner directs the Alistair MacLean adaptation, with Suzy Kendall as Sarah Ruthven and Ben Kingsley in his first film role. Revenge is the engine here, and it runs on patience and on how much of himself a man will spend to reach it.