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The Hostage Tower

Movie·1980·Thriller, Crime·1h 40m·Directed by Claudio Guzmán

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A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.

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