Juggernaut (1974 film)

Juggernaut
Original film poster by Robert McCall
Directed by	Richard Lester
Written by	Richard Alan Simmons as Richard DeKoker Alan Plater
Produced by	Richard Alan Simmons as Richard DeKoker
Starring	Richard Harris Omar Sharif Freddie Jones David Hemmings Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight Ian Holm Clifton James Roy Kinnear
Cinematography	Gerry Fisher
Edited by	Antony Gibbs
Music by	Ken Thorne
Production company	Two Roads
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	25 September 1974 (1974-09-25)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Juggernaut is a 1974 British crime suspense film starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, and Anthony Hopkins. The film, which was directed by Richard Lester,^[1] was largely shot on location aboard the TS Hamburg in the North Sea. It was inspired by real events aboard QE2 in May 1972 when Royal Marines and Special Boat Service personnel parachuted onto the ship because of a bomb hoax.^[2]

In the film, Richard Harris leads a team of Naval bomb disposal experts sent to disarm several large barrel bombs that have been placed aboard an ocean liner crossing the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, ashore, the police race against time to track down the mysterious bomb maker, who calls himself "Juggernaut", who will agree to a ransom in order to reveal the information that will disarm the bombs.