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The Price of Survival (1980)
Directed by Hans Noever
Overview
German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph, a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company’s history.
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Michel Piccoli | Martin West | Marilyn Clark | Suzie Galler | Ben Dova | Leonard Belove | Michael Stumm | Daniel Rosen | William Kuhlke | Roger Burget | Al Christy | Jack Layton | Kurt Weinzierl | Henry Effertz | Charles Jones | John Haseltine | Charles Devault | Ken Myers | Don Shinkle | Kurt Koepke | Jack Plympton | Jane McMahon | Paul Murphy