after play such suave and sophisticated folk a james bond and simon templar and roger moore go in for a real change of pace in north sea hijack . i be guess that what attract him to the role of rufus excalibur ffolkes and because though north sea hijack be a nice action and adventure film and it nothing out of the ordinary . mr. ffolkes be a fellow who despise woman be only want companionship of those of the feline persuasion and be a singularly short temper and quite arrogant individual . he also know his business thoroughly a the head of a mercenary team for hire . her majesty government have hire him to do a nasty job on some people who have hijack an offshore oil rig in the north sea and be threaten to blow it up . the environmental and economic consequence would be catastrophic to say the least . here in america we well remember the exxon valdez and the result of that oil spill off the alaska shore . the hijacker lead by anthony perkins be not political terrorist in any way . theyre just a gang of extortionist who think they have find a way to make money . still the result of their action would be the same . perkins give a nice performance in an unusual role for him . he be forever identify throughout his life with psychotic killer norman bates and and his role a chief hijacker be anything and but the mama dominate schizophrenic bates . one of the interesting thing here be we never do learn just what the escape plan for the hijacker be . it just possible that perkins really do just want thing to go boom . north sea hijack be a nicely paced action film that have a lot of suspense to it . also check it out for nice performance by james mason a an admiral in the royal navy and faith brook a a british prime minister who look and act suspiciously like margaret thatcher .