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The Domino Principle (1977)

Thriller | 97 minutes
2,58 62 votes

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: United States / United Kingdom / Mexico

Directed by: Stanley Kramer

Stars: Gene Hackman, Richard Widmark and Candice Bergen

IMDb score: 5,7 (3.548)

Releasedate: 23 March 1977

The Domino Principle plot

"Trust no one. No one."

Tucker, a Vietnam veteran, is convicted of murder but goes free when he agrees to commit a murder for a secretive political organization.

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Quentin

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Mediocre thriller, with a weak and confusing story, but with strong actors and beautiful camera work. just 2.5*

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Filmkriebel

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With the passing of Gene Hackman I watched a film with him again that I had never seen before. A paranoid thriller in which a prisoner is recruited by a mysterious organization to carry out an assignment. The course of events is not really predictable and the ending is definitely not a happy ending . Despite the low ratings, the film turned out to be completely my thing.
Also with Eli Wallach and Richard Widmark, two film noir icons, it was already good for me. But it is Hackman who dominates with his presence. This film reminded me somewhere of The Game by Fincher, in which there too a character has to play a role in a game of which he does not know the rules.
Would have been grist to the mill for a director like Sam Peckinpah at that time.

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blurp194

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Nice.

Clearly a story based on the principle of less is more, the philosophy that not everything needs to be spelled out for the viewer. And how well that works in this film; it remains suspenseful until the very end, and you're already becoming just as paranoid as the black-and-white introduction suggests.

A great cast, too, with Hackman leading the way, of course, but also Mickey Rooney, Eli Wallach, Richard Widmark, and Candice Bergen all have wonderfully layered roles. A nice duality; no one is flat or just acts as you'd expect.

What makes it even better is the beautiful sunny locations, while it's raining here. The only thing that bothered me at times was the slightly too James Bond-esque film score. Fortunately, the title track is also completely in that style, but still different.

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