L'École de tous les dangers

Original title: Fortress

1985
TV-MA
1h 25m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

3.7K

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Rachel Ward, Anna Crawford, Sean Garlick, Robin Mason, Bradley Meehan, Rebecca Rigg, and Richard Terrill in L'École de tous les dangers (1985)

An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.

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After being kidnapped for ransom by four criminals, a schoolteacher and her students flee into a cave and build fortifications in anticipation of a decisive battle with their captors.After being kidnapped for ransom by four criminals, a schoolteacher and her students flee into a cave and build fortifications in anticipation of a decisive battle with their captors.After being kidnapped for ransom by four criminals, a schoolteacher and her students flee into a cave and build fortifications in anticipation of a decisive battle with their captors.

Director
- Arch Nicholson
Writers
- Everett De Roche
- Gabrielle Lord
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

3.7K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Arch Nicholson
Writers
- Everett De Roche
- Gabrielle Lord
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win total

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Trivia
The film is loosely based on the 1972 Faraday School kidnapping of a teacher and her class by Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland. Eastwood later escaped from prison and repeated the crime with another teacher and his class in 1977. The Faraday kidnapping was in turn a real-life copycat crime based on a scene in the Clint Eastwood film L'Inspecteur Harry (1971) where the Scorpio Killer holds a bus driver and several schoolchildren hostage.

Goofs
After Sally emerges from the water while she's exploring, for an instant her hair seems swept back and pressed down, clearly drenched. During the next shot, which is a close-up, her hair looks as if it had been hastily dried with a towel, even though we never even see her touch her hair.

Quotes
Father Christmas: Get in the Van!

Alternate versions
The ending of the Hungarian VHS release of the film differs from all other versions. An alternate take of the policemen's questioning of Sally is used in the children threaten them with spears, which contrasts with other versions, which uses a take in which they are unarmed. During this sequence, a unique flashback also plays, in which Sally and the children are shown butchering "Father Christmas" to death, the action of which was cut away from in other versions.

Connections
Referenced in A Bicentenary with Bite: Revisiting Dark Age (2017)

Soundtracks
I'm the King of the Castle
(uncredited)
Traditional
Sung by Anna Crawford

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Featured review

10/10

What Memories This Movie Brings Back

Point blank this movie flashed me back to 3rd grade spring time or 4th grade fall of 1985. Vividly I remember sleeping over my friends house and telling him about this movie Fortress that I had just seen and he was eager to see it after I went on and on about it. Something was magical that night because about an hour later he turned on HBO and the movie was just starting. I remember we watched it and we both loved it. All through the years growing up it was our little inside laugh.....we would talk about Father Christmas......haha. I thought about the movie frequently growing up but never ever ever saw it again on TV or any channels such as HBO or Cinemax or Showtime. About two weeks ago while looking through my Comcast cable at 3 in the morning I came across Fortress coming on the next day on HBO and I set my DVR to record it and just watched it last night. I felt like a kid again.....and I couldn't believe how my memory flashed back and I knew pretty much everything that was coming up before it happened. I'm 29 years old and haven't seen that movie in 21 years. Wow!!!!!!!! Still Fantastic as it was when I was a child.......... Hope I didn't bore you to death.....maybe some others can relate to my little story and feel the same way about this movie.

Tommy New Jersey