5.8
Moment of Terror
1966
“For one teacher and nine children, the lesson of the day is kill or be killed.”
Fortress (1985)
November 24, 19851h 28mEN
6.8
95 votes
Overview
After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.
Director
Arch NicholsonWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Crawford Productions
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User Reviews
drystyx
9.0One might view this as the polar opposite of "Lord of the Flies", although both give very credible depictions of kids in dire circumstances. The difference here is that there is a teacher with the kids to guide them. Also, there is no plane crash. Instead, the kids are kidnapped from a very remote school in a very remote place in Australia. There are a lot of very interesting aspects to this film. First of all, the protagonists of a beautiful female teacher and her students in a place so remote that all the grades and ages are combined in one tiny class, so we get older kids and younger kid…
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