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Rage |
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| Directed by | George C. Scott |
| Produced by | Fred Weintraub |
| Written by | Philip Friedman Dan Kleinman |
| Starring | George C. Scott Martin Sheen Richard Basehart Barnard Hughes, |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography | Fred J. Koenekamp |
| Editing by | Michael Kahn |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 22, 1972 U.S. release |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Rage is a 1972 film starring George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen and Barnard Hughes. Scott also directed this drama about a sheep rancher who is fatally exposed to a military lab's poison gas.
Nicolas Beauvy is featured as the rancher's doomed son in a cast that also includes Paul Stevens and Stephen Young.
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While on a camping trip, sheep rancher Dan Logan (Scott) and his son are inadvertently exposed to a secret Army nerve gas from a plane passing overhead. Both end up in a military hospital where they are kept apart, unable to contact outsiders and lied to about their condition by a mysterious major (Sheen) who look at the incident as little more than an opportunity to study the effectiveness of a nerve gas on humans.
Logan tries to hold someone accountable for their actions, but he and his family physician (Basehart) are stone-walled from every angle by military authorities and by bureaucrats staging a cover up -- with those responsible already well insulated by their positions of power.
After he discovers that his young boy has died, Logan goes on a terrorism spree against the company responsible for manufacturing the lethal poison before it also kills him.