HARRISON FORD GOT CORNERED IN A PARIS GAY NIGHTCLUB TOILET IN A FRANTIC BID TO FIND HIS 'WHITE LADY'

The 80`s were renowned for tacky horror movies and big budget action films with a lot of machine guns but very flimsy plots, but FRANTIC, the 1988 film starring HARRISON FORD, stands out from the rest because of its bumbling intensity which never gives way to firefight and gore.


You could have always watched RAMBO if you needed to see that. Set in Paris, Harrison Ford brings to life the character of Dr. Richard Walker, a doctor from San Francisco who is in Paris for a medical conference. His wife Sondra (played by Betty Buckley), accompanies him to Paris only to discover in their hotel room that she 'mysteriously' is unable to open the suitcase.



After reaching the conclusion that Sondra must have picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport, Dr. Walker decides he better have a quick shower to freshen up and have a shave (laugh - not sure if he gets the chance to do that), before they action PLAN B and go back to the airport to try and retrieve the right suitcase.


It's the last time he sees his wife, while Dr. Walker is in the shower lathering up Sondra disappears off the face of the earth without a trace. There is no commotion in their hotel room, no indication of forced entry and no cries or screams for help. She just ups and goes literally into outer space with not even as much as a goodbye.


It turns out the suitcase that Sondra picked up by mistake contains a Statue of Liberty replica with a nuclear detonator device inside it, obviously some underworld crooks will do anything to get their hands on it, a flustered and dishevelled Dr. Walker goes to drastic measures to find out what happened to his wife, including going into an obviously gay nightclub searching for a man by the name of Dede.


Dr. Walker goes into the club and asks the waiter if he knows a Dede and where he can find him, a Caribbean man sitting nearby interjects and comes and sits next to Dr. Walker, obviously having heard him ask the waiter about Dede. Dr. Walker asks this 'friendly' stranger if he knows where Dede is, and tells him that his wife has gone missing.


The West Indian dude then says he knows where the 'white lady' is, the narcotically naive Dr. Walker falls for the guy's bluff thinking he is talking about his wife and follows him into the toilet (known as a restroom in america) where he winds up in the same cubicle as this guy with a chunk of cocaine up his nostril.


Until this moment it would appear Dr. Walker didn't realise he was in a gay bar and that this guy was trying to pick him up for a bit of boy boy action (laugh). No really, the film overall is very underated, the club scene is a brief flirtation towards satire, Dr. Walker discovers the woman who has Sondra's suitcase by mistake, and in the end Sondra does survive, but not before a riveting action scene on the banks of the River Seine involving the terrorists and some out of nowhere Israeli secret agents.