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Hostages 1993 2 and a half stars

    TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Wheatley
Cast: Kathy Bates, Colin Firth, Ciaran Hinds, Natasha Richardson, Jay O. Sanders, Josef Sommer, Harry Dean Stanton

  Set in the 1980s, this made-for-TV film deals with the plight of hostages in Lebanon.

Hostages 1943 2 stars

    N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Luise Rainer, William Bendix, Roland Varno, Oskar Homolka, Katina Paxinou, Paul Lukas, Philip Van Zandt, Hans Conried

  Activities of the World War II underground movement are brought to the screen as a resistance leader escapes capture and sabotages an armory.

Hostages (1993)

Kathy Bates

Oscar: Best Actress for Misery (1990)

Hostages (1943)

Luise Rainer

Oscars: Best Actress for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Best Actress for The Good Earth (1937)

Katina Paxinou

Oscar: Best Supporting Actress for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Paul Lukas

Oscar: Best Actor for Watch on the Rhine (1943)

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