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	Ransom (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ransom is a thriller film released in 1996, starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, and Gary Sinise and directed by Ron Howard.
		It's a remake of the 1956 film of the same name written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume starring Glenn Ford, Donna Reed and Leslie Nielsen.
		The film is based on King's Ransom, a police procedural by Ed McBain, and may have been influenced by Akira Kurosawa's 1963 film High and Low.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ransom_(movie) (199 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Ransom: Special Edition > Printer Friendly
		Ransom is one of those "Hollywood style" movies that actually delivers on its promises: it's a thriller that balances an interesting plot with well-handled action to create an entertaining roller-coaster ride of a viewing experience.
		Once the major events of the film are underway, we get a nice balance between anticipatory tension and all-out action: the intense ransom/chase/action sequences are all the more effective because they're built up to gradually and not piled on on top of the other.
		Ransom is a highly entertaining film that could easily have gotten a "highly recommended" if the DVD transfer were better.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=10197 (880 words)

	Ransom - Production Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The "Ransom" script was based on a 1956 film of the same title which starred Glenn Ford, Donna Reed and Leslie Nielsen.
		His primary interest in the project was to create a film in which the story followed not only the victims of a crime, but the criminals as well.
		When his only son is abducted by criminals and an FBI-led ransom drop goes horribly wrong, Mullen appears on television to announce he is turning the kidnappers' demand for $2 million into a bounty on their heads.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/matinee.cfm?Film=ransom&File=prdction (1527 words)

	LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING CASE: HBO documentary the real crime of the century (September 19, 1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The film exonerates Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the New York carpenter executed for the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
		Misspellings found in the ransom notes were identical to mistakes found in Hauptmann's personal papers.
		Although the film briefly mentioned Hauptmann's criminal record in Germany, it failed to note one significant crime.
	archive.jdedman.com /091996.htm (691 words)

	Howard holds films subtlety for 'Ransom'
		With a lot of expectations riding on this film, which many hope to be one of the saving graces of 1996, Hollywood is betting its bottom dollar that Gibson and all involved will help deliver the goods.
		"Ransom," on the other hand, is a grittier exploration of the souls of more complex people and their nasty surroundings; a lot of this has to do with the vivid, powerful script by Richard Price.
		The finale, in which the film takes a sharp plunge down into the depths Howard usually doesn't touch on, is both satisfying and over-the-top.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V129/N50/04-howard.50d.html (1096 words)

	News Release 11/2005: Discovery and restoration of "Beyond the Rocks," a lost Gloria Swanson and Rudolph ...
		The silent film, starring Gloria Swanson, one of the greatest Hollywood stars of the era, and Rudolph Valentino, the first male sex symbol in film history, was missing for more than 75 years.
		To celebrate the discovery, a restored “Beyond the Rocks” is screening at international film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
		Milestone Films, a company with a reputation for restoring and releasing classic films, has released the movie to theaters and will issue a DVD version in 2006.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/news/2005/11/hrc10.html (749 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ransom [1997]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But when a king's ransom is demanded for the child's safe return, Mel turns the tables and offers the ransom as reward money for anyone who provides information leading to the kidnappers' arrest.
		This film is bound to stir up the emotions of so many as it plays on the fears of every parent - a missing child.
		Upon receiving the ransom demand, he decides not to pay and instead places the the sum of the ransom as a bounty on the kidnappers head.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000062Y5P (1037 words)

	taoyue.com: Film Reviews - High and Low (1963) / King's Ransom
		But the glaringly obvious American elements in the film are a bit of a decoy, because only half of the film is based on the novel.
		He only becomes noticeable when he tearfully pleads for his employer to pay his son's ransom, but even in the background he projects the sorrowful air of a defeated man: head bowed, shoulders slumped, eyes darting to and fro, and a tentative and plaintive voice.
		The film is quite different; perhaps in a reflection of Japanese society, the public is unfailingly helpful to the investigation rather than a nuisance, King is a much more sympathetic character, and the policemen are less hardboiled.
	www.taoyue.com /film/high-and-low.html (2417 words)

	westword.com \| \| Movies \| A Ransom for Redford \| 2004-07-01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Clearing is the latest film to use that template, and, as such, it could easily have been a crushing bore.
		Another key detail of note is that, unlike many kidnap/ransom films, the focus is not on the cops, who are largely inefficient and absent from this story.
		The moment you realize this, the tension increases, because for all we know, by the time the ransom demand finally comes in, Wayne may already be in the hands of Arnold's unknown bosses.
	www.westword.com /issues/2004-07-01/movies2.html (880 words)

	Age of Innocence: A Ransom Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As the film opens, Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), a New York attorney of the 1870’s, is engaged to May Welland (Ryder), the epitome of that society: wealthy, beautiful, elegant, and completely captive to the customs and mores of the tribe.
		The drawing rooms filled with overstuffed chairs, the walls crowded with art, the fashionable women at an archery match in their full length white lace dresses, the men after dinner, neatly clipping the ends off their cigars—all are filmed in tableau fashion like paintings from John Singer Sargent or Mary Cassatt.
		In this film the camera for the most part lingers, a hand, a flower, a dining room table defining a past that in its insecurity and hopeless tribal legalism kills the only thing in which man in his condition can dare to hope: individual passion set free from the expectations of society.
	www.ransomfellowship.org /M_AgeofInnocence.html (706 words)

	The Films of Robert Aldrich - by Michael Grost
		However, film noirs were still being made steadily through the 1950's, and many of these works were classics of the cycle.
		Leachman's character is the film's most pitiful victim of the bad guys, and both Velda and the opera singer are very small potatoes in the scheme of things, from the world's point of view.
		At the beginning of the film, Leachman's character asks him if he likes to read poetry, and he gives her a "you gotta be kidding look" that squelches the whole idea.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/aldrich.htm (6576 words)

	The Passion: A Ransom Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The film opens with Christ agonizing in prayer as his disciples sleep, and follows him through the final twelve hours of his life, through his arrest, trial, torture, crucifixion, and burial.
		The film will remain controversial because the story it tells is not neat and pleasant, but brutal and bloody.
		Discuss the various characters in the film and determine their significance for the story: Satan, Judas, Mary, Pilate, Pilate’s wife, the other Mary, the disciples, the Roman soldiers, the Jewish leaders and priests.
	www.ransomfellowship.org /M_Passion.html (1658 words)

	Ransom! (1956) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After this film was made, it was remade by Ron Howard as Ransom (1996).
		Stannard immediately agrees to the kidnapper's terms, but at the last minute turns the tables when he goes on television and announces that the 500,000 ransom is now a price on the kidnapper's head, a decision which shocks the local townspeople and especially his wife.
		I have a feeling this film was innovative using television as a platform, it had to have been based on the year the film was made - 1956.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0049656 (595 words)

	Ottawa XPress - Film - Movie details - Ransom
		This film deals with the trauma and horrors when your child is kidnapped and then the kidnappers want a huge amount of money to have your child back.
		This film takes you off a rollercoaster and after watching this film you will be gasping for air.
		This film is a suspence thriller about a family whos kid gets kidnapped for rasom and the parents despertly try to get him back.
	www.ottawaxpress.ca /redirect.aspx?iIDCritique=7007 (859 words)

	King's Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As a woman who could almost be his mother, she relates to him as suchâ”rebuking him for swearing (even though she does it, too), not allowing him to spend $135,000 on a new Ferrari and looking out for his best interests.
		She's loyal to him throughout the film (though her motivation for such devotion remains a mystery).
		Unfortunately, the film doesn't treat her newfound belief as something worthy of respect, but rather as something to be mocked.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0002136.cfm (1342 words)

	Ransom (Special Edition) - DVD film: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		RANSOM is yet another Hollywood extravaganza movie about the terrors of the crime of kidnapping - with a twist.
		How this turn of events of a kidnapper becoming the victim and the resolution of the kidnapping that results is the gist of the story: it is the struggle of good vs evil, citizen vs police, and calling the bluff of a dangerous man for the sake of a father saving his child.
		The real shiner of this film is Gary Sinise who continues to impress with the facility with which he moves through varied character parts.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/B00015YVDG\|dvd (883 words)

	FilmJerk.com - Film Review: King's Ransom
		Byrd keeps his film on target, though what he’s battling to maintain really isn’t something to be proud of.
		There’s nothing in “Ransom” that hasn’t already been covered in countless other urban films, including the slapstick humiliation of Caucasians and the monotone thumpity-thump-thump-thump hip-hop soundtrack.
		“Ransom” doesn’t want to challenge the genre in the least, instead it imagines itself a comedic farce, which it could’ve become if not for Anderson’s shrill, lazy performance.
	www.filmjerk.com /new/article1274.html (632 words)

	Ransom - The Making of Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Another scene was shot at a working quarry in New Jersey, while the film's climactic action sequence, involving hand-to-hand combat between Tom Mullen and his nemesis in the middle of Madison Avenue, was shot entirely on location on the Upper East Side.
		In fact early one morning, while "Ransom" was filming on the streets of Astoria, Queens, a real police chase drove right through the set.
		While director Howard wanted his film to be as realistic as possible, he also wanted the camera to tell the story in an unpretentious yet artful way.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/matinee.cfm?Film=ransom&File=prdctn2 (949 words)

	The Ernest Lehman Collection: Harry Ransom Center
		In 1954, he was back at MGM working on a film project for John Houseman that was tentatively titled THE LABOR STORY, based on an original idea by John Bartlow Martin.
		Starring and launching the career of Paul Newman, this was to be the second of four Lehman films directed by Robert Wise.
		The film, which starred Paul Newman, was produced by Pandro Berman and directed by Mark Robson.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /collections/film/holdings/lehman (1505 words)

	Review: Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Years earlier, Ransom arrives in Shinbone broken, bruised, and bloodied after being robbed and beaten by the notorious outlaw, Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin, dripping malice in a virtuoso performance that put him on the Hollywood map).
		For Ransom, a book-learned attorney with little knowledge of the real world, "justice" means "jail." But in Shinbone, where the marshal (Andy Devine) is spineless, the path to justice coincides with the trajectory of a bullet.
		In the film's pivotal scene, Ransom confronts Liberty in a duel.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/man_shot.html (1401 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: King's Ransom
		So he hatches a plan to stage his own kidnapping, demand an extravagant ransom from himself, and thereby shield his wealth from his wife.
		In order to execute his foolproof scheme, Malcolm engages the help of his witless girlfriend, Peaches (Regina Hall), whose chief asset is her abundant booty, which the camera never hesitates to lovingly caress.
		Three other parties, to be precise: his disgruntled wife and her lover, a trio of disgruntled employees, and a pathetic yokel (Jay Mohr) who has no real connection to Malcolm but does provide the film occasion to make fun of white trash.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/08b5b0d688f7bdd488256fef006490d1?OpenDocument (690 words)

	MusicSearcher.com: \| Ransom (1996 Film)
		James Horner is by far my favorite film composer, but I must be honest, I love this CD because of Billy Corigan.
		Ransom's score was good, but not Horner's best...
		His music reflects the way the film's character are feeling.
	www.musicsearcher.com /Items/720616208620/Reviews (294 words)

	Ransom mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Continuity: Towards the end of the film, Gary Sinise is watching Rene Russo and Mel Gibson playing ball with their son.
		Revealing: Towards the end of the film when Gary Sinese shoots the guys in the white van, when he shoots the bald guy, as he falls out the door you can see the squib vest protrude from under his shirt.
		Continuity: In the middle of the movie when Mel Gibson is in the interview room in the jail with the guy who he paid off to stop the machinist strike, the guy jumps at Mel and punches him.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film1048 (722 words)

	Ransom - Review - Good Film, Poor DVD
		I have just finished watching this film on DVD and I thought the film was good (even if it did take a while to get going), but the DVD that contained it was poor.
		As the title suggests Mel Gibsons son is kidnapped and ransomed for 2 million dollars.
		This film was good but not the best I have seen and as I said before the DVD was pants.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-r/ransom/63051 (182 words)

	Kidman, Kung Fu, Kutcher, Caviezel, and King's Ransom - Christianity Today Movies
		Regarding the film, she says, "Pollack is an excellent director … [but] while this film is mostly enjoyable, it lacks the heart-pounding drama a thriller should have.
		But in my opinion, the film concludes in a way that excuses—even justifies—this "hero's" insensitivity to his wife and his dishonesty toward his neighbors.
		David DiCerto (Catholic News Service) writes that the film is "full of raunchy, irreverent and mean-spirited humor and uniformly unappealing performances … [a] witless waste of 95 minutes, sloppily directed … a royal mess, made all the worse by the fact that it inexcusably got a PG-13 rating."
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/filmforum/050428.html (1621 words)

	Ransom on DVD - MovieWeb
		A headstrong airline tycoon pays the ransom for his abducted son, despite the pleas of his wife and FBI agents, then must gamble on the consequences of attempting to turn the tables on the kidnapper, setting up a gut-wrenching confrontation between the anguished father and the increasingly desperate criminals.
		Ransom - Tom Mullen (Mel Gibson) is a wealthy corporate executive used to mediating tough business deals, and doing things his own way.
		But when the thing he cherishes most_his young son_is abducted by desperate criminals and held for ransom, Tom's world of affluence and privilege comes crashing down.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?717951000026 (395 words)

	King's Ransom (2005)
		With the 99 44/100% laugh-free comedy King's Ransom, roly-poly comedian Anthony Anderson sinks to a new low in a film career already littered with such turkeys as Kangaroo Jack, My Baby's Daddy, and See Spot Run.
		This utterly crass and witless film is a disaster that brings out the very worst in normally likable actors like Jay Mohr and Donald Faison of TV's Scrubs.
		Otherwise, King's Ransom is a leaden-paced endurance test that shamelessly panders to the very lowest common denominator.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=140114&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13 (509 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| April 14, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Bolivia: Movies: Hollywood: Kidnapping: Artist Freedom: ...
		Hackford was not consulted when a private company "sanitized" the film by removing the entire kidnapping scene because of its violent content.
		Taylor Hackford's 2000 film Proof of Life, starring Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe, told the story of an American oil executive who was kidnapped for ransom by insurgents in a fictional South American country.
		An artist also should be allowed to protect the integrity of his or her work, as a scientist is able to patent a discovery.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2031032.html (1608 words)

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