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Douglas Heyes – The French Atlantic Affair (1979)

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When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it’s paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979. -Letterboxd

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The third of ABC’s miniseries offerings, The French Atlantic Affair was an expensive but pulpish all-star version of the same-named Ernest Lehmann novel. Chad Everett essays the nominal leading role as Robbins-esque novelist Harold Columbine, one of dozens of wealthy, well-dressed passengers on a luxury ocean liner. Columbine’s earlier, sympathetic articles on cult leader Craig Dunleavy (Telly Savalas) may well prove to be life-savers when Dunleavy and his henchmen take over the liner and hold its 3,000-plus celebrity passengers for a 70-million-dollar ransom (that translates to 13 tons of solid gold). The script contrives to include a lavish costume ball wherein most of the younger actresses appear in extremely revealing costumes. Although title designer Phil Norman won an Emmy award for his efforts, viewers and critics were generally cool to the charms of The French Atlantic Affair when the three-part melodrama aired on November 15, 16, and 18, 1979 — probably because the miniseries’ melodramatic convolutions were dwarfed by the real-life hostage drama then unfolding in Iran. -TvGuide

Episode 1
Part 1 of a three-part miniseries about the hijacking of a luxury liner by cultists who demand a $70-million ransom.

Episode 2
The murder of 12 passengers sparks desperate attempts to save the hijacked ocean liner.

Episode 3
A sophisticated computer, timed explosives and an unexpected double-cross figure into the conclusion.

4.49GB | 4h 52m | 718×480 | mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/BC8A674B903D9C7/The_French_Atlantic_Affair.E02.1979.DVDRIP.x264_-TDR.mkv
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