Fortress (1985)

When a teacher and her class are kidnapped by gunmen in the Australian outback, they soon realize that the only way they will ever escape alive is if they save themselves.

Fortress

This movie scared me as a kid when I first saw it on HBO. It is action packed and really thrilling. You find yourself rooting for the teacher and her students. It takes place in Australia so the movie has that dialect, however, I encourage anybody who loves thrillers to see this movie. October 5, 2008

FORTRESS

If you are looking for drama,adverture,thrill then this move is for you about a school teacher and her kids in a one room school house who is taken hostage by 3 mask gunman its a good movie if you like none stop action and thrills August 22, 2008

Lord Of The Flies Down Under

In this made for TV film based on a book about a real-life incident, Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds, Sharky's Machine) plays a teacher in a rural one-room schoolhouse who is, along with her students, kidnapped by psychopathic yahoos.

Ward is prettier than most teachers, but she avoids being too glamorous to be believed in the role. Facing hardships and possible death, she and her students bond through their efforts to survive and escape. The children are the strength of the film--not too cute, but still likeable; not into book learning, but filled with the lore of the Outback.

While the climax may stretch the viewer's credibility, it has a satisfying feel to it, and the final scene of the kids and their teacher safely back in civilization adds a bit of zest to the run-of-the-mill action film.

If you like films about attractive people in danger in exotic settings, you won't go wrong with this DVD. July 2, 2008

Great action adventure movie.

We had a homegrown VHS recording of this 'made for HBO' movie. We had passively looked for it for many years and it is every bit as good as we remembered. If you've never seen it and like it when the victims fight back in a seemingly 'no win' situation you like this movie. These kids are a bunch of pint sized Rambos. January 18, 2008

fortress

fortress was a good B movie I would say 3.5 out of 5 stars how they get captured is different where they are taken is weird they like to escape I liked the idea of the masks and how they look the movie keeps you going and the ending is very good surprise October 27, 2007

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