Burt Lancaster and Eva Marie Saint in Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

TV Movie1990Not Rated3h
DramaHistoryThriller
6.2 / 10(309)

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

Rated
Not Rated
Runtime
3h
Released
1990
Country
Italy, France, United States, West Germany, United Kingdom

Details

Release year: 1990

Storyline

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

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Cast
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Did you know

According to the NY Times, the film was shot inside the actual Achille Lauro cruiser. She sank in 1994 after an uncontrolled fire incident.

By the time this aired in 1990, Rebecca Schaeffer had been murdered by a stalker.

Abu Abbas would remain free until being captured in Iraq by American Soldiers in 2003. He died in 2004. Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro affair has not been released widely on anything that came after VHS.

User reviews

8/10

Flawed but accurate film depicts raw brutality of Palestinian extremists

👍 16 · 11/25/2005
10/10

Powerful film...contains spoilers....

👍 5 · 2/13/2007
/10

at least still conserve a lots of truth !

👍 4 · 7/18/2003

Technical specs

Sound mix
Mono
Aspect ratio
1.33 : 1
Color
Color

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