A Father's Revenge (1988)

• Director
  • John Herzfeld
• Writers
  • Tom Schulman(story)
  • Mel Frohman(story)
• Stars
  • Brian Dennehy
  • Ron Silver
  • Anthony Valentine

  Made for television, A Father's Revenge stars Brian Dennehy as a high school basketball coach. When terrorists pull off a political kidnapping in West Germany, Dennehy's stewardess wife Joanna Cassidy is among the hostages. Fed up with the apparent foot-dragging of the authorities, Dennehy takes personal action in effecting Joanna's rescue. He hires Ron Silver's band of mercenaries, then heads to Germany to bring back his wife himself. Credibility is stretched to the limit at times, but the three stars are at their peak.