Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:Popular Filmproduktion DNSFilmproduktion BR Films 66
The Price of Survival
1 hr 43 minDrama
German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the US in English an unusual achievement at this time The setting is Jefferson City Missouri and Joseph Randolph a VIP in a fictional electronics company has just gotten the sack The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing but Randolph is not buying it Enraged he gets a handgun this is the US and shoots five managers to death Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man and all three start digging deeper into the companys history
