Rating Graph is an online visualization tool which generates fancy graphs about TV shows and Movies based on 1316 million user ratings. Find your next binge-watch!

The Hostage ratings (Movie, 1956)

The Hostage
Rank 178,468 / 243,787
Trend 0
Genres Thriller
Total votes 62
Average rating 4.5 / 10

A terrorist political movement is active in a South American republic. One of their members is due to be executed, but the London branch of the group have kidnapped the adult daughter of the President (in London) and they will kill her if the execution goes ahead. An American commercial pilot is unwittingly used by the group to dump a packing case in the sea from a plane, to generate public attention to the issue. The police accuse him of knowingly being involved with them, but this is obviously a false trail. The London group think he may be useful to them, and he too is abducted and taken to the headquarters of the group in London; the girl is being held there too. The President is informed about his daughter's situation, but if he cancels the execution to save his daughter, his political credibility will be lost, and the Republic will fall into anarchy, and he is resolute. The group try to get the girl to appeal to her father, and when she refuses, they try to get the American to ...

Directors: Harold Huth Writers: Alfred Shaughnessy, Guy Morgan
History (tracking since March 7, 2020)
Note: amount of total votes may decrease due to periodic removal of fraudulent ones. Related Movies
Switch to mobile version