Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair ★★½ 1990

Recounting of the 1985 Italian cruise-ship hijacking by four Palestinians. Lancaster is the wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer and Saint is wife Marilyn. Miniseries was shot on the actual ship and route where the tragedy occurred. 120m/C VHS . Burt Lancaster, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Culp, Brian Bloom, Dominique Sanda, Rebecca Schaeffer, Joseph Nasser, Gabriele Ferzetti, Renzo Montagnani; D: Alberto Negrin. TV

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