Rosebud (1975)

Otter Preminger's penultimate directorial effort is this not very good, in fact distressingly slow thriller. 'Rosebud' is about five friends, the wealthy daughters of French, German, English and American wealth and power abducted off a yacht by agents of the PLO and held for ransom. Peter O'Toole is the British trouble shooter hired to free the girls. This movie draws unflattering comparison to the semi recent real life inspired 1970's abduction film 'All the Money in the World'. The film lacks both the necessary sense of momentum and stakes, as well as characters one can really get invested with. O'Toole is good enough with what he has to work with, there is one sequence where he is in West Germany with an associate tracking down a lead that has the kind of energy and twinkle the rest of this movie could have really used. Perhaps most notable as the screen debut of a teenage Kim Cattrell. Richard Attenborough plays the leader of the terrorists, and is just far too white. *1/2