The acting is solid enough especially from the stars Roger Moore, Anthony Perkins as the criminal leader and James Mason as the head of the navy. Having said all that there is a slightly naive charm to this movie especially if like me you've seen far too many American movies that just feature a good guy massacring several thousand villains without even having to reload .

It has often been said that Roger Moore can't act - that all he can do is raise his eyebrows a few inches.

It didn't do well commercially when it was new, but over the years has found enthusiastic fans through cable television airings and home video releases.

Thrilling film about a North Sea hijack full of suspense , tension , excitement and some humor in charge of Roger Moore . The bad guys, led by Anthony Perkins, have hijacked a service ship, planted mines around the bases of two oil rigs, and threaten to blow both of the mega-expensive things up unless they are given the money in 24 hours. The cast is superb, with Anthony Perkins as gang leader, playing some kind of crossover between Norman Bates and the Bond villains.

He was forever identified throughout his life with psychotic killer Norman Bates, and his role as chief hijacker is anything, but the mama dominated schizophrenic Bates. Throughout his career critics have placed Roger Moore in a catagory with such alleged actors as George Hamilton and Pamela Anderson.