--- title: 'Fear Is the Key (1972)' type: 'film' director: 'Michael Tuchner' released: '1972-12-26' runtime_minutes: 103 genres: - 'Action' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/fear-is-the-key-1972' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068576/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Fear Is the Key (1972) 1972 · 103 min · Action, Crime · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Fear Is the Key is a 1972 British action thriller film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Barry Newman and Suzy Kendall. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same title by Alistair MacLean. It was the feature film debut of Ben Kingsley. The soundtrack is by Roy Budd. ## Credits - **Director:** [Michael Tuchner](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-tuchner) - **Screenplay:** [Robert Carrington](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-carrington) - **Original Music Composer:** [Roy Budd](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-budd) - **Director of Photography:** [Alex Thomson](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-thomson) - **Editor:** [Ray Lovejoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-lovejoy) ## Cast - [Dolph Sweet](https://cinepixo.com/people/dolph-sweet) as Jablonsky - [Ben Kingsley](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-kingsley) as Royale - [Ray McAnally](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-mcanally) as Alexander Ruthven - [Barry Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-newman) as John Talbot - [Roland Brand](https://cinepixo.com/people/roland-brand) - [Elliott Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/elliott-sullivan) - [John Vernon](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-vernon) as Vyland - [Tony Anholt](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-anholt) - [Peter Marinker](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-marinker) as Larry - [Suzy Kendall](https://cinepixo.com/people/suzy-kendall) as Sarah Ruthven ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/fear-is-the-key-1972 Film facts: Wikidata (Q10499493); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.