

Fear Is the Key
A seasoned deep-sea salvage expert orchestrates an intricate scheme to infiltrate a criminal organization that inflicted a foul misdeed upon him, and to exact his vengeance.
Director(s)
Michael Tuchner
Colin M. Brewer
Peter Cotton
Chris Kenny
David Munro
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Peter McGinn
I can only assume they changed the story somewhat from the book because I can’t imagine Alastair MacLaine writing a story with so may plot holes and instances where people who interacted with the hero (?) did so many dumb things. It starts with a scene that seems to have nothing to do with the main body of the plot once that gets going, so that is a rather heavy handed giveaway that the scene is in fact a segue containing the explanation for what is to follow, thus giving away to me at least a major plot twist. Ands when the action does begin, it does so with a seemingly endless chase scene involving half of the police cars in Louisiana, the drivers of which apparently didn’t have radio contact as they never coordinated their efforts but just lined up in polite single file to be disabled or driven into deep water. But I will stop describing the plot here, so as not to give too much more away, as well as not to establish the admission that I watched most of this stinker.
Fear Is the Key FAQs
The directors of Fear Is the Key are Michael Tuchner, Colin M. Brewer, Peter Cotton, Chris Kenny, and David Munro.
The cast of Fear Is the Key includes Ben Kingsley as Royale, Roland Brand as Deputy, Suzy Kendall as Sarah Ruthven, Hal Galili as Cibatti (uncredited), Ray McAnally as Ruthven, Barry Newman as John Talbot, John Vernon as Vyland, Elliott Sullivan as Judge Mollison, Peter Marinker as Larry, Dolph Sweet as Jablonsky, John Alderson as Tanner (uncredited), James Berwick as (uncredited), and more.
The duration of Fear Is the Key is 1h 43 mins.
Fear Is the Key was released on 26 Dec 1972.
Fear Is the Key is listed under Action and Thriller on Fanbiz.
Fear Is the Key has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 5.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "I can only assume they changed the story somewhat from the book because I can’t imagine Alastair MacLaine writing a story with so may plot holes and instances where people who i..."














