O Medo é a Chave

Título original: Fear Is the Key

1972
PG
1 h 43 min

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A man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as deep sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo.

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants to find and punish those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as a deep-sea diver with those s... Ler tudoA man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants to find and punish those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as a deep-sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo.A man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants to find and punish those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as a deep-sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo.

Direção
- Michael Tuchner
Roteiristas
- Alistair MacLean
- Robert Carrington
Artistas

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AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb

6,3/10

2,4 mil

SUA AVALIAÇÃO

Direção
- Michael Tuchner
Roteiristas
- Alistair MacLean
- Robert Carrington
Artistas

Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro

Curiosidades
After appearing in this movie, Sir Ben Kingsley did not appear in theatrical movies until Gandhi (1982) where he won the Best Actor Academy Award. In between these two movies, Kingsley worked in theatre and television.

Erros de gravação
After Talbot has kidnapped Sarah Ruthven from the courthouse, he steals a car and is driving through town to make his getaway. He skids on open ground to avoid a green car and the camera lens gets cracked in the top right of screen by the thrown up dirt.

Citações
John Talbot: How did you recognize me?
Jablonski: I didn't. You picked a face that's well known in these parts. This is Miss Sarah Ruthven, daughter of Alexander Ruthven, spelled O I L. All those oil rigs out in the Gulf? They belong to Daddy.

Trilhas sonoras
Main Theme
(uncredited)
Written by Roy Budd
Produced by Jack Fishman
Performed by Roy Budd And His Orchestra

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7/10

Great suspense, either down in Louisiana or at the bottom of the sea

Now, I know that action/adventure movies based on Alistair MacLean novels usually require a large portion of suspension of disbelief, but "Fear is the Key" is extra far-fetched! A grieving man stages an entire criminal career, including a spectacularly violent escape from the court room with murder and hostage-taking, only so that he can infiltrate as a salvage expert into a gangster squad that wants to retrieve a valuable loot from a sunken airplane. Don't worry if it sounds too convoluted or incomprehensible, as the film is easy to follow and very entertaining.

There are three main reasons why "Fear is the Key" is a class above the vast majority of contemporary adventure/mystery thrillers. #1: the chase. A film that features a nearly 20-minutes-long car chase with, behind the wheel, Barry Newman, the same cult-movie stunt driver as in the legendary "Vanishing Point"? Yes, please! Excellent Louisianan filming locations, too. #2: the cast. The aforementioned Barry Newman is cool, as always, but particularly the bad guys impress. Sure, he's typecast, but nobody depicts a loathsome villain like John Vernon does. The film also stars a young Ben Kingsley, and he's truly awesome as a silent but deadly menacing hired killer. #3: the climax. I guarantee that "Fear is the Key" has one of the most intense, captivating and edge-of-the-seat suspenseful endings you'll ever see.