Weekend of Terror

1970
5.7| 1h14m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 08 December 1970 Released
Producted By: Paramount Television Studios
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Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.

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Jud Taylor

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Paramount Television Studios

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FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Movie about two buffoonish kidnappers staring the future guy with the chip on his shoulder Robert Conrad as Eddie and future "Six Million Dollar Man" Lee Majors as Larry, sounds like members of a comedy act, who pull off their first as last crime the blotched kidnapping of Louise Wedemeyer, Barbara Barnett. Louise while held hostage ends up with her getting her skull cracked and dies when a horny Eddie tried to have his way with her. Instead of leaving things as they are Eddie convinced his fellow kidnapper, the sensitive of the two, Larry to go out in the desert of Southern California to kidnap another girl to replace the dead Louise and collect the ransom from her concerned dad Mr.Wedemeyer, Tod Andrews.Spotting a stalled car in the desert Eddie seeing the driver is a young girl, who's in her 40's, who turned out to be Sister Ellen, Lois Nettleton, needing help. He's soon surprised when the car hood was put down to see that the car had beside the young woman two nuns Sister's Meredith & Nadine, Carol Lynley & Ann Doran, sitting in it! Making a bad situation even worse Eddie who seems to be on ,beside the cans of beer he guzzles down, something that's messing with his head tried to get the youngest of the trio, after kidnapping them, Meredith to impersonate the dead Louise in getting the ransom money. All this before Louise's dad and police can see her and realize she isn't Louise! ***Major Lee Majors Spoilers*** As Larry tries to get the by now out of his skull Eddie not to murder both Ellen & Nadine in order to keep then from talking to the police in who kidnapped them-He seemed to have forgotten the soon to be released Meredith who can also identify them as well-he puts his life at stake by hiding them if Eddie finds about it. Meanwhile Eddie did get the suitcase containing the ransom money without even once bothering to open it up and see it the cash is really there! Which shows just how much he was interested in the money in the first place. The final curtain comes down on this mind blowing film with Larry, Eddie by now was history, making a run for it at a local air field with Ellen being held as hostage by him. Trapped with his getaway plane disabled Larry ends up getting blasted by the police and when he's about to kick off he's forgiven by that forgiving soul Sister Ellen for all the stupid things that he did in the movie; Which in fact being forgiven was far better then the ransom money he never lived long enough to spend.
ivegonemod I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie. Usually I don't like the really really old TV movies, just the really old ones, LOL. The movie has a pretty decent pace, and the acting is good. Lots of well known actors in here. I thought Carol Lynley was kind of spaced out, but then she seemed spaced out in most of her 1970's films. Jane Wyatt really didn't seem to have much of a role. The only thing that really bothered me was that STUPID wig! That wig looked nothing like the Louise's hair, it was two totally different colors! When the guy sends the nun into the wig shop with a piece of hair to match up, you can see that it is so light it is hardly even brown. Louise's hair was chocolate brown. How hard was it to make the nun get a really dark brown wig?
moonspinner55 Handsomely-produced TV-movie from Paramount has two desperate men, holed up in an abandoned house in California's High Desert, hastily rearranging their kidnap-for-ransom plan after their female captive suffers a fall and dies; they decide to kidnap another woman to take the dead girl's place, but end up with three nuns in the bargain (two in robes and habits, one in civilian clothes: a pleated mini-skirt and go-go boots!). Fairly entertaining yarn, written by Lionel E. Siegel with tongue slightly in-cheek, begins well but unravels completely by the third act. This holy trio of Sisters (Lois Nettleton, Jane Wyatt and Carol Lynley) is quite an unlikely group--as are Robert Conrad and Lee Majors as the kidnappers! The characters are not fleshed out by the writing, therefore we never fear for their safety. Lynley has a big dramatic sequence late in the film which Siegel squashes merely so he can continue along with his formula (this may not have been his fault, however, as most television dramas from this era were not made to be surprising or provocative--just routine). However, Jud Taylor's competent direction and the interesting rural locales manage to hold interest for most of this "Weekend".
tvmovielady48 Weekend Of Terror is another fun made for television movie of the early decade of the 1970s.I love this movie.I just watched this movie a couple of nights ago again.I love the made for television movies of the 1970s and late 1960s and some from the 1980s.This particular movie has a terrific cast. Carol Lynley, Robert Conrad,Anjanette Comer and on and on.I saw this movie for the first time when I was around 12 twelve or thirteen years old.I remember that I watched as many of these movies as possible with my parents. The one that I remember watching first was Dr. Cook's Garden with Bing Crosby.If you like tales that are cheesy and just plain fun then you will like Weekend Of Terror.I have this movie.