History Film / Juggernaut1974

* WireDilemma: When a blackmailer has placed bombs inside 55-gallon drums on a cruise ship, in the days before this was a tired cliché, everything comes down to Fallon, a pair of wire cutters, and two wires. At the film's climax, defusing the bomb requires guessing whether to cut the red wire or the blue wire. The police back in London have captured the bad guy, and he tells them to cut the blue wire -- so now the question becomes, do you believe him, or cut the red wire? [[spoiler:You cut the red wire]].

* BoobyTrap: [[spoiler:Charlie decides to put an insulator between a couple of detonator prongs to prevent them touching. Instead, the bomb explodes. When Fallon takes a close look at the prongs, he sees there's a thin wire connecting them that sets off the bomb if it's cut.]]

* BoobyTrap: [[spoiler:A bomb disposal officer sees the detonator prongs and decides to put an insulator between the two to prevent them touching. Instead, the bomb explodes. When Fallon takes a close look at the prongs, he sees there's a thin detonator wire connecting them that sets off the bomb if it's cut.]]

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: While defusing the bombs planted by Juggernaut, the BombDisposal officer realises they resemble a particular German TimeBomb used during World War 2, and tells the police to consult a man he served with during the war who has experience with such devices. He turns out to be Juggernaut.

* PhoneTraceRace: This trope plays out when the bomber calls to ask if the ship's owners have decided to pay the ransom yet. They successfully trace the phone that the call is coming from, only to find that it's just a relay, attached earpiece-to-mouthpiece to another phone which is receiving another call from the bomber's actual location.
* RansomDrop: The ransom demanded by the bomber is to be left in a certain locker at a bus station. The police stake out the locker, but the man who comes to pick up the money turns out to have been hired to collect it and drop it somewhere else, with no knowledge that can lead back to the bomber. He also inadvertently screws up the bomber's plan when he doesn't have enough money to pay the excess baggage fee (having spent it already).

* TimeBomb: An extortionist has six identical, booby-trapped bombs, hidden in various parts of the ship and set to go off when the extortionist's deadline expires (plus a smaller one set to go off at the same time as the extortionist delivers his demands, as proof that his threat is not a hoax), promising the plans to defuse them if a ransom is paid by dawn tomorrow. Cue Richard Harris para-drops in to try to defuse them.

* WireDilemma: When a blackmailer has placed bombs inside 55-gallon drums on a cruise ship, in the days before this was a tired cliché, everything comes down to Richard Harris, a pair of wire cutters, and two wires. At the film's climax, defusing the bomb requires guessing whether to cut the red wire or the blue wire. The police back in London have captured the bad guy, and he tells them to cut the blue wire -- so now the question becomes, do you believe him, or cut the red wire? [[spoiler:You cut the red wire]].

An extortionist (Freddie Jones, father of Creator/{{Toby|Jones}}) hides six time bombs on a cruise liner, the SS ''Britannic'', and demands a £500,000 ransom in return for information on the bombs' locations and instructions on how to disarm them without setting off their booby traps. A Navy bomb disposal team, led by Lt Commander Fallon (Harris), is flown out to the ship and attempts to disable the bombs, while on land a team of investigators led by Superintendent [=McLeod=] (Hopkins), whose family are on board the ''Britannic'', race against time to uncover the identity of the bomber.

An extortionist hides six time bombs on a cruise liner, the SS ''Britannic'', and demands a £500,000 ransom in return for information on the bombs' locations and instructions on how to disarm them without setting off their booby traps. A Navy bomb disposal team, led by Lt Commander Fallon (Harris), is flown out to the ship and attempts to disable the bombs, while on land a team of investigators led by Superintendent [=McLeod=] (Hopkins), whose family are on board the ''Britannic'', race against time to uncover the identity of the bomber.

* RansomDrop: The bomber specifies a place and time for the ransom to be dropped off; the police stake it out, but the pick-up is made by a hireling who doesn't know who he's working for. [[SpannerInTheWorks The villain's plan fails]] because this hireling has spent the money to be used for the excess baggage fee.

* TimeBomb: Six of them hidden in various parts of the ship and set to go off when the extortionist's deadline expires (plus a smaller one set to go off at the same time as the extortionist delivers his demands, as proof that his threat is not a hoax).
* WireDilemma: In the days before this was a tired cliché, everything comes down to Richard Harris, a pair of wire cutters, and two wires. The police back in London have captured the bad guy, and he tells them to cut the blue wire -- so now the question becomes, do you believe him, or cut the red wire?