Cold Sweat (1970 film)

Cold Sweat

Directed by	Terence Young
Produced by	Robert Dorfmann Maurice Jacquin
Written by	Dorothea Bennett Jo Eisinger Shimon Wincelberg
Based on	the novel Ride the Nightmare by Richard Matheson
Starring	Charles Bronson Liv Ullmann James Mason Jill Ireland
Music by	Michel Magne
Cinematography	Jean Rabier
Distributed by	Emerson
Release dates	June 14, 1970
Running time	94 min.
Country	France / Italy
Language	English

Cold Sweat is a 1970 French/ Italian international co-production starring Charles Bronson and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1959 novel Ride the Nightmare by Richard Matheson. It was filmed in and around Beaulieu-sur-Mer.

Plot

During the Korean War, Joe Moran, a U. S. Army sergeant, was convicted for striking a colonel. He was imprisoned in Germany. In the military prison he encountered his former company commander Captain Ross, and a fellow soldier who served under Joe called Vermont. They had been imprisoned for black marketeering and hijacking army vehicles. Joe agrees to escape with them. The escape is organised by a former French Foreign Legionnaire named "Katanga". Things go according to plan until Katanga kills a curious German police officer. Frightened and disgusted by the murder, Joe escapes by himself, abandoning his friends and Katanga, who are recaptured.

Years later, Joe is known as Joe Martin. He makes a legitimate living renting boats in the South of France. He lives with his wife, Fabienne, and 12-year-old daughter. Things are going fine for Joe. When Joe's picture appears in a local news story, Ross, Vermont and Katanga appear. Now wanted drug smugglers, they want revenge on Joe and use of his rental operation to move contraband. To ensure Joe's cooperation, they kidnap his wife and daughter and hold them hostage.

Production

The film was known for an extended car chase with an Opel Commodore GS/E I6 involving the Bronson character's attempt to get a doctor to a wounded drug dealer in exchange for his wife.^[1]

Matheson's novel had already been filmed in 1962 under its original title as an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour with Hugh O'Brian and Gena Rowlands in the lead roles.

A 1993 film starring Ben Cross, Adam Baldwin, and Shannon Tweed is not a remake of this film, although it has the same title.

Cast

Charles Bronson as Joe Moran aka Joe Martin
Liv Ullman as Fabienne Martin
James Mason as Captain Ross
Jill Ireland as Moira
Jean Topart as Katanga
Michel Constantin as Vermont aka Whitey (dubbed by David Hess)
Luigi Pistilli as Fausto Gelardi
Yannick Delulle as Michèle Martin (as [Yannick de Lulle])
Paul Bonifas as the doctor
Sabine Sun as the nurse
Roger Mailles as a poker player
Nathalie Varallo as Violet
Remo Mosconi as Marius
Dominique Crosland as the girl scout leader
Yannick Deheth uncredited
Gabriele Ferzetti uncredited
Bob Ingarao as a fisherman (uncredited)

External links

Cold Sweat at the Internet Movie Database
Cold Sweat is available for free download at the Internet Archive

References

↑ Internet Movie Car Database: 1969 Opel Commodore GS/E Coupé [A]

The films of Terence Young

Films directed	Corridor of Mirrors (1948) One Night with You (1948) Woman Hater (1948) They Were Not Divided (1950) Valley of Eagles (1951) The Tall Headlines (1952) The Red Beret (1953) That Lady (1955) Storm Over the Nile (1955) Safari (1956) Zarak (1956) Action of the Tiger (1957) No Time to Die (1958) Serious Charge (1959) Too Hot to Handle (1960) Black Tights (1961) Duel of Champions (1961) Dr. No (1962) From Russia with Love (1963) The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) The Dirty Game (1965) Thunderball (1965) The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966; TV) Triple Cross (1966) The Rover (1967) Wait Until Dark (1967) Mayerling (1968) The Christmas Tree (1969) Cold Sweat (1970) Red Sun (1971) The Valachi Papers (1972) War Goddess (1973) The Klansman (1974) Jackpot (1974-1975; unfinished) Foxbat (1977) Bloodline (1979) Inchon (1981) The Jigsaw Man (1984) Run for Your Life (1988)

Documentaries	Theirs Is the Glory (1946)

Screenplays	On the Night of the Fire (1939) Dangerous Moonlight (1941) Secret Mission (1942) On Approval (1944) Hungry Hill (1947) The Bad Lord Byron (1949) Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 (1966)

Richard Matheson

Novels	I Am Legend (1954) The Shrinking Man (1956) A Stir of Echoes (1958) The Beardless Warriors (1960) Hell House (1971) Bid Time Return (1975) What Dreams May Come (1978)

Short stories	"Born of Man and Woman" (1950) "Blood Son" (1951) "Button, Button" (1970)

Screenplays	The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) House of Usher (1960) "The Last Flight" (1960) "Nick of Time" (1960) "A World of Difference" (1960) "A World of His Own" (1960) Master of the World (1961) The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) "The Invaders" (1961) "Once Upon a Time" (1961) Night of the Eagle (1962) Tales of Terror (1962) "Little Girl Lost" (1962) "Young Man's Fancy" (1962) The Raven (1963) "Death Ship" (1963) "Mute" (1963) "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963) "Steel" (1963) The Comedy of Terrors (1964) The Last Man on Earth (1964) "Night Call" (1964) "Spur of the Moment" (1964) Fanatic (1965) The Young Warriors (1966) "The Enemy Within" (1966) The Devil Rides Out (1968) De Sade (1969) Duel (1971) The Night Stalker (1972) The Night Strangler (1973) The Legend of Hell House (1973) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973) The Morning After (1974) Scream of the Wolf (1974) Trilogy of Terror (1975) Dead of Night (1977) The Martian Chronicles (1980) Somewhere in Time (1980) Jaws 3-D (1983) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) "Button, Button" (1986) Loose Cannons (1990) The Dreamer of Oz (1990) Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994) Trilogy of Terror II (1996)

Adaptations by others	"And When the Sky Was Opened" (1959) "Third from the Sun" (1960) Cold Sweat (1970) The Omega Man (1971) The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) What Dreams May Come (1998) Stir of Echoes (1999) "Dance of the Dead" (2005) "My Ambition" (2006) I Am Legend (2007) I Am Omega (2007) The Box (2009) "The Splendid Source" (2010) Real Steel (2011)

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