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Released
1980 · FILM

North Sea Hijack

When the next 12 hours could cost you 1,000 million pounds and 600 lives you need a man who lives second by second

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Runtime
100 min
ActionAdventureThriller

Synopsis

When terrorists seize control of two oil rigs and threaten to detonate them unless their demands are fulfilled, an unconventional anti-terrorism expert offers his distinctive commando unit to intervene.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan StrachanShot by Tony ImiScored by Michael J LewisDesigned by Maurice Carter

Box Office

1980 · Box office

Grossed $3.0M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$3.0M

Worldwide gross$3.0M

Opening weekend: $806K 27% of its US run.

Peak 398 theaters

Also known as

  • Sprengkommando Atlantikde
  • ffolkesen
  • Rescate en el mar del Nortees
  • Les Loups de haute merfr
  • Attacco: piattaforma Jenniferit

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