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- 1981
- R
- World Northal
- 1 h 31 m
- 1981
- R
- World Northal
- 1 h 31 m
Summary Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organization to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
Directed By: Stuart Cooper
Written By: Paul Mayersberg, Derek Marlowe
- 1981
- R
- World Northal
- 1 h 31 m
- 1981
- R
- World Northal
- 1 h 31 m
The Disappearance
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Summary Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organization to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
Directed By: Stuart Cooper
Written By: Paul Mayersberg, Derek Marlowe
Top Cast
Although the direction is occasionally a little precious - with studiedly stylish tableaux accompanied by Ravel - Sutherland is suitably haunted and cold as the confused assassin, and John Alcott's superb camerawork, on location in an icy Canada and a leafy Suffolk, is a definite bonus. And there are some fine supporting performances, particularly from Warner, Hurt and, most memorably, McKenna.
Worth seeing, if only for the great cast and John Alcott's always-impressive photography.
Mr. Cooper's abrupt, stylized direction can't tease much delicacy or meaning out of the material, though delicacy is all that might recommend it. John Alcott's handsome cinematography is most effective, but the beauty it imparts is skin-deep.
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Production Company
Trofar,
Tiberius Film Productions,
National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC),
Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC),
The Odeon Theatres (Canada),
National Film Trustee Company
Release Date Sep 25, 1981
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating R
Tagline A violent passion held them together. A passion for violence ripped them apart.
