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The Deadly Tower

  • Téléfilm
  • 1975
  • TV-14
  • 1h 40m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
6,6/10
1,2 k
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Kurt Russell in The Deadly Tower (1975)
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L' histoire de Charles Whitman, un homme dérangé qui un jour, suite à une migraine, tue sa femme et ses enfants, et se barricade dans un édifice de l'Université du Texas à Austin, tirant à v... Tout lireL' histoire de Charles Whitman, un homme dérangé qui un jour, suite à une migraine, tue sa femme et ses enfants, et se barricade dans un édifice de l'Université du Texas à Austin, tirant à vue sur tous, jusqu'à ce que la police arrive.L' histoire de Charles Whitman, un homme dérangé qui un jour, suite à une migraine, tue sa femme et ses enfants, et se barricade dans un édifice de l'Université du Texas à Austin, tirant à vue sur tous, jusqu'à ce que la police arrive.

  • Director
    • Jerry Jameson
  • Writers
    • William Douglas Lansford
    • Antonio Calderón
  • Stars
    • Kurt Russell
    • Richard Yniguez
    • Ned Beatty
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    6,6/10
    1,2 k
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • Jerry Jameson
    • Writers
      • William Douglas Lansford
      • Antonio Calderón
    • Stars
      • Kurt Russell
      • Richard Yniguez
      • Ned Beatty
    • 25Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 11Commentaires de critiques
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    Rôles principaux13

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    Kurt Russell
    Kurt Russell
    • Charles Whitman
    Richard Yniguez
    Richard Yniguez
    • Ramiro Martinez
    • (as Richard Yñiguez)
    Ned Beatty
    Ned Beatty
    • Allan Crum
    Pernell Roberts
    Pernell Roberts
    • Lieutenant Lee
    Clifton James
    Clifton James
    • Captain Fred Ambrose
    John Forsythe
    John Forsythe
    • Lt. Elwood Forbes
    Gilbert Roland
    Gilbert Roland
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Paul Carr
    Paul Carr
    • C.T. Foss
    Alan Vint
    Alan Vint
    • Tim Davis
    Maria Elena Cordero
    • Vinni Martinez
    • (as Maria-Elena Cordero)
    Pepe Serna
    Pepe Serna
    • Mano
    Jerry Leggio
    Jerry Leggio
    • Mr. Valchex
    • (uncredited)
    Roger Manning
    • Officer Kib
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jerry Jameson
    • Writers
      • William Douglas Lansford
      • Antonio Calderón
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    Commentaires des utilisateurs25

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    8park1971

    Classic TV Movie now on DVD!!

    A powerful 1975 TV movie about the real life events that took place on the University of Texas campus in 1966 when a deranged 25 year old Charles Whitman began shooting people from the top of the Tower. When it was all over it would be the largest one-person murder spree in U.S. history to date. Whitman played by a young Kurt Russell who at the time was known for his light hearted Disney movies. Russell's portrayal of the killer is very effective as he keeps silent like a man possessed. This was an early glimpse of the kind of role Russell would do later in the 80's with Escape from New York and The Thing. The movie also focuses on the rescue team and police officers who put their lives on the line that fateful day. YouTube has some actual live news footage of that August day in 1966 where a camera is fixed on the Tower and you can see the assailant moving around and shots being fired. The movie is now on DVD through Warner Brothers Archive Collection and it looks great!! Also check out the real life crime TV movies Killer in the Family and The Deliberate Stranger on Warner DVD!
    7bkoganbing

    A terrible day in Austin

    Several years ago in 1971 when I was doing the weekend warrior thing in Fort Sam Houston I visited Austin one weekend and did go on the university campus. My reason for going was to see the newly opened Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. It's almost as big as the infamous tower. Still I did note the tower little dreaming that it would be the site of a terrible tragedy. Like passing by the former World Trade Center towers before they became infamous.

    The Deadly Tower is the story of the massacre at the campus of the University Of Texas by former serviceman Charles Whitman suffering from an undiagnosed brain tumor who managed to sneak up some assault weapons, enough ammunition for a company who barricaded himself in the tower and started shooting at random.

    The story is that of Whitman and one of the Austin police officers who took him down on that fateful day. Kurt Russell who broke from the Disney G rated mold finally got taken seriously as an actor with a wonderful performance with minimal dialog.

    Richard Yniguez who should have had a breakthrough performance is also good as Austin PD officer Ramiro Martinez. I don't know why Yniguez never became a star.

    Folks like John Forsythe, Clifton James, and Pernell Roberts play other police officials. Ned Beatty plays Alvin Crum, a university employee who with Yniguez and Paul Carr are the ones who finally reached the demented and troubled Whitman.

    For a while as well he should, Charles Whitman became a poster child for gun control. Even with a president nearly assassinated not a decade later we still have no effective national policy to prevent future Charles Whitmans. The other view of gun control is also presented here as various citizens with hunting weapons join in to help the cops. There weapons are more effective and keep Russell pinned down.

    The Deadly Tower is a fine film and good telling of one of the saddest days of the last century.
    Michael_Elliott

    Extremely Entertaining and Intense

    The Deadly Tower (1975)

    *** (out of 4)

    Highly entertaining and intense made-for-television movie about Charles Whitman (Kurt Russell), the man who went on a shooting rampage on top a tower in Austin, Texas on August 1st, 1966. The film follows his rampage while at the same time following police officer Ramiro Martinez (Richard Yniguez) as he tries to reach the tower.

    THE DEADLY TOWER is without question one of the better made-for-television films from this era where, quite frankly, there were several very good ones. The story of Whitman is probably going to be known by most people going into this film but it does a very good job at showing the horrors of that day as well as showing the intense pressure that was on Martinez as he tried to make it to the tower on his day off of all things.

    There's a lot of great things here including the performances from the cast. Russell doesn't have too many lines of dialogue so instead he must "act" with his eyes and he really lets you see a rather sad and pathetic person. I really thought Russell delivered an extremely cold performance that said so much without words. Then you've got Yniguez who is simply wonderful in his role. I won't give away some of the subplots surrounding the character but the actor certainly makes you feel and believe that this was a good guy out there willing to risk his life to save others. Ned Beatty is also good in his supporting role as was John Forsythe.

    Director Jerry Jameson does a very good job at holding your interest throughout the 100-minute running time. Even better is the fact that he does an extremely good job at building up the tension during the shooting sections. Mix in the great performances and you've got an extremely good movie on the subject. Those interested in the subject should also check out an unofficial version that Peter Bogdanovich made in TARGETS.

    CAPTAIN FANTASTIC is certainly an original picture, which isn't something that happens too often these days. We've seen movies about strange families before but this one really hits all the right notes.
    9ruthann-renaud

    Very intense movie indeed

    I saw this movie when it first aired in October 1975. NBC ran a viewer advisory that it was very intense and may affect sensitive viewers. Yes, indeed! Whitman was one demented person and the casting of All-American Disney actor Kurt Russell to play him was incredible...it showed Russell could do heavy stuff. The casting of journeyman Latino actor Richard Yniguez to play Officer Martinez was also great. The supporting cast (Ned Beatty, John Forsythe, Pernell Roberts, etc.) was also excellent. It was interesting to see Mr. Forsythe as a detective investigating the gun stores-a far cry from Bentley Gregg or Blake Carrington. This was also Pernell Roberts' first time on TV in a while playing Martinez' sergeant. Part of the intensity of the movie came from the fact that Whitman shot at anyone or anything that moved and any attempt to take him out (shooting from a plane or citizens shooting with their hunting rifles) only agitated him. The bookstore clerk guiding Martinez and his fellow officers into the tower showed true heroism. I was in college in California when this movie first aired and I mentioned to my father that my college's library had an observation/study deck that somebody could use for such an act! In fact the college security department worked out a plan in case of somebody doing this. Thank goodness nobody tried this. Back to the movie...it was presented from Martinez' point of view and some have said there is a Latino bias, but I say it is a very intense depiction of true heroism. 43 years have passed since that tragic day. One would hope it would never happen again anywhere, but it does (Fort Hood, San Ysidro, Orlando, to name a few).
    inspectors71

    Mixed messages

    NBC greenlighted The Deadly Tower, a retelling of the Charles Whitman incident of 1966, but the network was apparently unwilling to let it go as a kid-goes-nuts-and-shoots-up-a-college-campus thriller. Instead, they packed and padded this painful and unnerving story with lots of social commentary about a young Latino patrolman, one of the principals who got to Whitman, battling prejudice.

    NBC's prudence (or cowardice, depending on your take) just about squelches the lean, dark, and amazingly gory (for TV) story of Whitman (a ne'er do well played creepily by Kurt Russell) losing his mind, offing his family, and carrying his fight with whatever lurking head-demons to a university tower where he unloads on an unsuspecting campus.

    I've seen a documentary about Whitman which told the story of a profoundly damaged young man who breaks under familial pressures and seeks vengeance against the world. You don't get that from the movie; there isn't much more than a blurb about a suspected brain tumor to explain his actions.

    Yet, on a suspense level, the movie works quite well. It's when the screenwriters pull their punches by injecting social issues that the movie loses its focus (but probably gains that old expectation of containing significant social value).

    The Deadly Tower is ugly and sweaty and filled with mayhem, and if you can get by the issue stuff, you'll either be rewarded by or repulsed by a brutal and suspenseful voyeuristic wallow.

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      Filmed at the state capitol building in Baton Rouge, LA, due to the feeling by Austin, TX, officials that filming in the actual location would not be in the best interests of citizens affected by the shooting.
    • Gaffes
      The movie shows Charles Whitman lacing up shiny polished combat boots. In reality, he was killed wearing white sneakers with black socks.
    • Citations

      Lieutenant Elwood Forbes: Sorry to bother you, but I understand you told one of my men earlier about a guy in here buying guns and ammo. Could you tell me what he looked like?

      Gun Shop Owner: Like I told the officer on the phone, I don't pay attention to how my customers look.

      Lieutenant Elwood Forbes: Can't you try to remember?

      Gun Shop Owner: Well, he was a big kid. Short hair, nice looking.

      Lieutenant Elwood Forbes: Did you know him? Have you ever seen him in here before?

      Gun Shop Owner: Like I told the officer who called, I don't pay attention to how my customers look.

      Lieutenant Elwood Forbes: Well, don't you find it funny? A man walks in here and buys a high-powered rifle, a shotgun, and enough ammunition to start World War III?

      Gun Shop Owner: Look Lieutenant, I don't choose the customers! If a man walks in here and wants a weapon, we sell him one. If he wants two, we sell him two. There ain't no law against that.

      Lieutenant Elwood Forbes: Yes, but did you by any chance get him to sign the registration form for the purchase of the weapons?

      Gun Shop Owner: Of course. That's the law.

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    • Date de sortie
      • 18 octobre 1975 (United States)
    • Pays d’origine
      • United States
    • Langues
      • Spanish
      • English
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Turm des Schreckens
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Baton Rouge, Louisiane, États-Unis
    • société de production
      • MGM Television
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      1 heure 40 minutes
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      • Mono
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.33 : 1

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