The Last Word is a 1979 film starring Richard Harris.
[3] A washed-up inventor, Danny Travis, takes matters into his own hands in a very extreme way when he learns that his house will be condemned and his beloved children left on the street.
Travis is so upset that when a city official comes to evict him from the premises, he takes the man hostage.
A television reporter, Paula Herbert, turns public sympathies both for and against Travis, prolonging the story opportunistically as a Los Angeles police captain, Gerrity, attempts to defuse the situation.
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