Cold Sweat poster
Director Terence Young
Writer Jo Eisinger, Dorothea Bennett

Cold Sweat

Tagline: Bronson and Mason play a high stakes game of cat and mouse . . . and only one man can walk away the winner

Release Date: 1970-12-18

Duration: 94 minutes

Synopsis

During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he encounters his former company commander Captain Ross, jailed for black marketeering. Together with Ross' cohorts Joe agrees to escape with them, but things go wrong and a policeman is killed. An appalled Joe escapes by himself, abandoning the others, who are recaptured. Years later Joe has a boat rental business where he is found by Ross. Now a wanted drug smuggler he wants the use of Joe's boats and to ensure his cooperation, they kidnap his wife and daughter.

Casting

  • Charles Bronson
    Joe Martin
  • James Mason
    Captain Ross
  • Jill Ireland
    Moira
  • Liv Ullmann
    Fabienne Martin
  • Luigi Pistilli
    Fausto Gelardi
  • Sabine Sun
    The nurse
  • Jean Topart
    Katanga
  • Michel Constantin
    Whitey
  • Paul Bonifas
    The doctor
  • Roger Mailles
    A poker player