Eyewitness [Sudden Terror] *** (1970, Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George) – Classic Movie Review 8376

Director John Hough’s diverting 1970 British thriller Eyewitness [Sudden Terror] stars Mark Lester as Ziggy, a boy with a vivid imagination who has a hard time getting anyone to listen to him when he says that he has seen an African chief murdered in an assassination by fake cops. Naturally the bad guys come after Ziggy to shut him up.

This Mediterranean-set suspense-thriller adventure is written by Ronald Harwood, in a decent, literate screenplay based on the novel by John Harris (writing as Mark Hebden). A thoroughly British cast of the old school jollies along the pleasant, competently directed production, with sweet picture-postcard views of Malta, from Paul Maslansky, the producer of the Police Academy series.

Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Vaughan are a particular help to the movie as Grandpa, Pippa, Inspector Galleria and Paul Grazzini.

Also in the cast are Tony Bonner Peter Bowles, Betty Marsden, Jeremy Young, Christopher Robbie, Jonathan Burn, David Lodge, Maxine Kalil, Robert Russell, Joseph Furst, Tom Eytle, John Allinson and Anthony Stamboulish.

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