disregard the bashing you have hear on sterling hayden acting . it be the result of modern computer nerd who think every character have to be a video arcade one dimensional stereotypical psycho and and who have no idea on the world outside their computer . this be a well direct and well act and exciting adventure of an isolated group of people terrorize by bad guy . in this case and the bad guy be three assassin out to kill the president of the united state a he visit a small town . sinatra get the ham role of the top killer . a in real life and the leader be often the least qualified and and most suicidal . he have shakespearean tragic fallacy in his character that look ready to doom him and his men . but will the doom be too late to save the people he kidnap . believable character and an overall good script make this film one that make the modern gangster movie look pitiful . not for the computer nerd or modern video game dork who can not stand three dimensional character and psycho and bad guy who aren not invulnerable and or believable reaction . but definitely for most people .