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Rage
Rage is a 1972 American thriller / mystery 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. The plot was inspired by a true 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. Nicolas Beauvy is featured as the rancher's son in a cast that also includes Paul Stevens and Stephen Young.
Plot
While on a camping trip, Wyoming sheep rancher Dan Logan and his son are inadvertently exposed to a secret Army nerve gas from a helicopter passing overhead. Both end up in a hospital where the military, with the help of a military doctor conspire to keep them apart, limit their contact to outsiders, and lie to them about their condition. The military looks at the incident as little more than an opportunity to study the effectiveness of a nerve gas on humans.
More details
| author | Dan Kleinman Philip Friedman |
|---|---|
| director | George C. Scott |
| editor | Michael Kahn |
| genre | drama mystery thriller |
| keywords | army camping trip cover-up dead body fall kill military base mutilated body nerve gas pass poison sheep ranch surround traumatize united states army wyoming |
| musicBy | Lalo Schifrin |
| producer | Fred Weintraub |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| theme | stag |