Hijacked at sea! (Part 2)
Which of these movies centered around a hijacking at sea is your favorite?
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Part 1: Hijacked at sea!
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Part 1: Hijacked at sea!
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- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsGail PatrickLloyd NolanHarry CareyA convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
- DirectorJack DonohueStarsFrank SinatraVirna LisiAnthony FranciosaA motley crew of treasure hunters plan to rob the cruise-liner RMS Queen Mary, using a recovered WW2 German submarine.
- DirectorAshley LazarusFreddie FrancisStarsRichard HarrisAnn TurkelGordon JacksonOn a cargo ship converted into a cruise-liner, First Officer John Carter foils the plan of international hijackers to use his vessel as bait for a passing U.S. Treasury ship carrying gold bullion.
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsRobert DuvallKlaus Maria BrandauerMichal SkolimowskiA trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
- DirectorJohn 'Bud' CardosStarsGary BuseyBelinda BauerRay SharkeyTed Andrews persuades his ex-wife Sandy to let their children accompany him on a journey on his multi-million dollar yacht to Australia, where he wants to sell it. However after a few days it turns out that his girlfriend Laura is member of a terroristic organization, who want the boat as an operation base. Only Ted survives their attack and can escape, the children are kept as hostages. Together with his wife, Ted starts an international TV campaign to hunt down the terrorists and free the children.
- DirectorRobert L. CollinsStarsKarl MaldenLee GrantE.G. MarshallThe story of the hijacking of the Italian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons. In their hands lay the fate of several passengers, many Americans included, and among them, Jewish-American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.
- DirectorTroy MillerStarsDyan CannonMartin MullSarah Michelle GellarMarsha Robinson, host of a TV cooking show, takes her family on a working vacation to a South Seas Island, but their yacht is hijacked by pirates and shipwrecked. Then they must survive Marsha's complaints while they build a tree house, meet a handsome shipwrecked surfer, bond together as a family, and fight off the pirates.
- DirectorJim WynorskiStarsDylan WalshIce-TErika EleniakThis is the story of a modern day pirate mad man and his crew of 8, searching for fortune on a cruise ship but a small group of passengers fight back.
- DirectorJohn TerleskyStarsRoy ScheiderPatrick MuldoonMaria Conchita AlonsoSecret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues.
- DirectorJean PellerinStarsRob LoweLarisa MillerHarry Van GorkumA car ferry carrying a valuable artifact is sunk by a group of international thieves.