Rage (1972 film)

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Rage
Rage
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 dates	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.

Plot

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 looks 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.

Cast

George C. Scott as Dan Logan
Richard Basehart as Dr. Caldwell
Martin Sheen as Major Holliford
Barnard Hughes as Dr. Spencer

Notes

This film marked George C. Scott's debut as a director.

The plot was based on a historical event, the Dugway sheep incident, in which a jet accidentally sprayed VX, a lethal nerve gas, in Utah's Skull Valley, resulting in the deaths of 3,000-6,000 sheep.

External links

Rage at the Internet Movie Database

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