I'm a Robert Shaw fan and easy to please when it comes to anything he does.
The script is excellent, and there are some very suspenseful moments. Gregson has the overworked and under-appreciated copper down to a tee, and Shaw is quite menacing as a kidnapper.
They cast a very angelic looking boy to play the kidnapped tyke. He gets locked up and is left alone in an abandoned home to fend for himself. The boy could die if he's not rescued before a bomb goes off. Most stories of this type would portray the little rich kid as a spoiled brat, but this film does not go that route. It is not predictable.
There is a decent subplot involving a police chief who is more concerned with his high society friends than focusing on his job and the working class men who are employed in the department.
The script is excellent, and there are some very suspenseful moments. Gregson has the overworked and under-appreciated copper down to a tee, and Shaw is quite menacing as a kidnapper.
They cast a very angelic looking boy to play the kidnapped tyke. He gets locked up and is left alone in an abandoned home to fend for himself. The boy could die if he's not rescued before a bomb goes off. Most stories of this type would portray the little rich kid as a spoiled brat, but this film does not go that route. It is not predictable.
There is a decent subplot involving a police chief who is more concerned with his high society friends than focusing on his job and the working class men who are employed in the department.