The French Atlantic Affair The French Atlantic Affair

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Father Craig Dunleavy leads a band of terrorists who hijack a cruise ship in the French Atlantic and demand a $70 million ransom. Harold Columbine is our main hero, as the teleplay spends as much time focusing on the problems and love affairs of individual passengers as it does on the hijacking itself.

Telly Savalas Chad Everett Horst Buchholz Jean-Pierre Aumont José Ferrer Louis Jourdan Michelle Phillips Marie-France Pisier Donald Pleasence Stella Stevens Shelley Winters Carolyn Jones John Rubinstein Rebecca Balding Lance LeGault William Lucking Nehemiah Persoff Corinne Calvet Lee de Broux Dana Hill Bruce French Deborah Benson Army Archerd Francis X. McCarthy M. Emmet Walsh Curt Lowens James Coco Billy Beck Arielle Dombasle Show All…

Director

Douglas Heyes

Writers

Douglas Heyes Ernest Lehman

Country

USA

Language

English

drama

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  • MxGeorgeWhite

    Review by MxGeorgeWhite

    Utter camp nonsense, stretched to five hours.
    It outstays its welcome, but part-Jonestown cult drama with Telly Savalas as an Irish-American UFO cult leader, part-Poseidon Adventure knockoff (Savalas' turn identical to his Dr. Stefan Svevo from Beyond, plus Shelley Winters and Stella Stevens appear), part-hostage espionage Euro-thriller, part bonkbuster, part sub-Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew kid investigator mystery.

  • flurryheaven

    Review by flurryheaven ★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Based on novel by Ernest Lehmann.

    So a bunch of people get on a cruise ship for a holiday but some of those folks are part of a cult and the cult leader has an overly complicated and sometimes meandering plot to take over the ship which he of course successfully does. This mini series was three installments and boy were they long. I'm not sure how I feel, I liked many aspects but just thought some of the moves done by the villains and heroes were unnecessary and pointless in so many ways.

    This was a decent production with a good cast. Some famous folks and before they were famous folks gave solid and not so solid performances. The…

  • Marty McKee

    Review by Marty McKee ★★½

    ABC’s adaptation of Ernest Lehman’s 1977 novel THE FRENCH ATLANTIC AFFAIR does not get off to a promising start with LOVE BOAT-esque main titles (“in alphabetical order”) and a startlingly phony opening shot of a cut-out photograph of a cruise ship pasted to a monitor showing the New York City skyline. At least the long scroll of television stars and character actors shows promise of high camp (and Phill Norman’s titles won an Emmy, by the way).

    The talented Douglas Heyes, a former MAVERICK and TWILIGHT ZONE veteran who adapted Lehman’s book and directed, doesn’t let us down, starting with KOJAK’s Telly Savalas as a charismatic cult leader in a flashy medallion who amazingly dresses, smokes, and acts more like…