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''Juggernaut'' is a 1974 British crime suspense film starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif and Anthony Hopkins. The film, which was directed by Richard Lester, was largely shot on location on the TS Hamburg in the North Sea. It was inspired by a real events aboard the ''QE2'' in May 1972 when Royal Marines from the Special Boat Service were parachuted on to the ship because of a bomb hoax.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=QE2 History )〕 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 bomber who calls himself "Juggernaut." ==Plot== The ocean liner SS ''Britannic'' is in the middle of a voyage in the North Atlantic with 1200 passengers on board when the shipping line's owner (Ian Holm) in London receives a telephone call from a man with an Irish accent styling himself as "Juggernaut", who claims to have placed seven barrels of amatol (high explosive) aboard the ship which are timed to explode and sink it at dawn on the following day. He warns that the barrels are booby-trapped and that any attempt to move them will result in detonation, and offers that technical instructions in how to render the bombs safe will be given in exchange on a ransom being paid to him of £500,000. As an indication of his seriousness he then sets off a demonstration attack with a series of small bombs on the ship Instead a Royal Navy officer, Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon (Richard Harris), leading a bomb-disposal unit is dispatched, arriving on the scene by air transit and parachuting into the sea, with orders to board the ship and defuse the barrel-bombs before the deadline. Meanwhile, back in London Supt. McCleod (Anthony Hopkins), whose wife and two children happen to be holidaying on board the ship, leads Scotland Yard's investigation against the clock to capture the criminal master-bomber. After an attempt to defuse one bomb by remote-controlled robot fails, setting it off and damaging the ship, Fallon decides to split up his team with each man working simultaneously on each of the remaining devices at different points around the ship, Fallon going first with each stage of the defusing operation and informing his men of each move by radio link, with the aim that if he fails and his bomb explodes, his men will know what went wrong and continue the process onwards, with his second in command taking up the lead, until the devices are disarmed. However, if two more bombs go off, the ship will sink. Fallon proceeds to disarm the bomb he is working on, apparently successfully, with his men following each step. However, it contains a hidden secondary mechanism and a sudden lurch in the ship due to the bad weather causes one of his men to trigger it, resulting in his death when it explodes, causing further damage to the ship. Fallon at this point abandons the operation and advises the Ship's Captain (Omar Sharif) to radio to the shipping-line to pay the ransom to avoid any more carnage, but has to continue after the British Government's refusal is received. Meanwhile, an extensive police search back in London captures the bomber, who is revealed as an embittered former British military bomb-disposal officer, Sidney Buckland (Freddie Jones), and he's escorted to the police situation room. After interrogation, he agrees to tell Fallon - whom he knows personally, having trained him as a junior officer - by radio-link how to disarm the bombs as time is running out and the dawn detonation is fast approaching. However, in doing so, after some hesitation when Fallon appeals for his clemency on the basis of their former comradeship, Buckland betrays him and his own chance for redemption, and gives fatally false direction. Fallon, sensing he's being misled, does the opposite of what he is told, thus rendering the device successfully inert in the film's climactic scene, the rest of the bomb-disposal unit swiftly follow his example, the ship and its passengers being saved. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Juggernaut (1974 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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