Director: Terence Young
Cold Sweat is a 1970 crime thriller directed by Terence Young, built around American star Charles Bronson as a quiet family man whose violent past resurfaces on the sunlit French coast. The film moves from an uneasy calm into a tightening standoff over loyalty, coercion, and the price of an old mistake.
What is Cold Sweat about?
Joe Moran has traded a turbulent military history for a modest boat-charter business on the Riviera, where he lives with his wife and daughter. That fragile peace fractures when Ross, his former commanding officer from a military prison, arrives with a group of hardened associates. Years earlier a failed prison break ended with a dead policeman and Joe slipping away on his own, leaving the others to be caught. Ross has since fallen into smuggling, and he now wants the use of Joe's boats. To force cooperation, the gang seizes Joe's family, trapping him between protecting the people he loves and confronting men who have no reason to keep their word. What follows is a pressure-driven chase along the coast as Joe weighs each move against the safety of his wife and daughter.
Cast & crew
Charles Bronson headlines as Joe Moran, opposite Liv Ullmann as his wife and James Mason as the menacing Ross. Jill Ireland appears in support, alongside an international lineup that includes Michel Constantin, Jean Topart, Luigi Pistilli, and Yannick Delulle. The mix of an American lead with French and Italian players is characteristic of the European productions Bronson made around this period.
Context & significance
Cold Sweat is a European co-production credited to Belgium, France, and Italy, running about 94 minutes. Director Terence Young was already well known for helming several early James Bond films before taking on this coastal thriller. The picture sits within a run of continental action and crime titles Bronson headlined near the start of the 1970s, and it carries an IMDb rating of 5.7.
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