"In a Stranger's Hand" (aka, "And Then She Was Gone") features Robert Urich as a beleaguered computer software salesman, who is a kind-hearted soul, who lends a helping hand for a mother seeking to recover her kidnapped daughter.
The film is not so much a thriller as a by-the-numbers action picture with a major twist about the leaders of a sick kidnapping ring. An underlying rule in this type of film is that the police are incompetent, and it will be up to the hero to follow the paper trail to the villains.
Throughout the film, poor Jack is constantly being punched, kicked, knocked to the ground, and roughed up in the pursuit of the missing child and the cause of justice. He interrupts a big business deal to help out the mother who is desperate. He cancels a trip to Antigua. He seemingly has no personal life.
The film cleverly makes use of Jack's software company and a computer expert to do some state-of-the-art hacking c. 1991, to help find the villain. The action was well-paced, and Urich commanded the screen as the former college quarterback known as "The Scrambler." He lived up to his nickname in this story with his tenacious pursuit of little Carla's abductors and against all odds.
The film is not so much a thriller as a by-the-numbers action picture with a major twist about the leaders of a sick kidnapping ring. An underlying rule in this type of film is that the police are incompetent, and it will be up to the hero to follow the paper trail to the villains.
Throughout the film, poor Jack is constantly being punched, kicked, knocked to the ground, and roughed up in the pursuit of the missing child and the cause of justice. He interrupts a big business deal to help out the mother who is desperate. He cancels a trip to Antigua. He seemingly has no personal life.
The film cleverly makes use of Jack's software company and a computer expert to do some state-of-the-art hacking c. 1991, to help find the villain. The action was well-paced, and Urich commanded the screen as the former college quarterback known as "The Scrambler." He lived up to his nickname in this story with his tenacious pursuit of little Carla's abductors and against all odds.