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The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police. Director:Ralph Nelson |
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| Sidney Poitier | ... |
Shack Twala
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| Michael Caine | ... |
Jim Keogh
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Major Horn
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Prunella Gee | ... |
Rina Van Niekirk
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Saeed Jaffrey | ... |
Mukarjee
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| Persis Khambatta | ... |
Persis Ray
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Rijk de Gooyer | ... |
Van Heerden
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| Rutger Hauer | ... |
Blane Van Niekirk
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Patrick Allen | ... |
District Commissioner
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Joe De Graft | ... |
Wilby Xaba
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Archie Duncan | ... |
Gordon
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Abdulla Sunado | ... |
Village Headman
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Helmut Dantine | ... |
Prosecuting Counsel
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Peter Pearce | ... |
Highway Policeman
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Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination Written by garykmcd
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In the fight for freedom, you have to break all the rules.Parents Guide:
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(Austria) See more »Also Known As:
Die Wilby-Verschwörung See more »Company Credits
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Music by Stanley Myers
Lyrics by Jeremy Taylor
Sung by Dean Hart See more »
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This movie was made and released about three years after its source novel of the same name by author Peter Driscoll was first published in 1972. This picture is the only ever filmed adaptation of a story by Driscoll. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: While hiding the car in a village on the way to Johannesburg, Twali speaks Swahili with the villagers. Swahili is only spoken in East and Central Africa, for example in Kenya, the location of the shooting, but not in South Africa. See more »Quotes
Major Horn: Mukarjee could swear by the beard of the prophet or the nails of the true cross and it wouldn't mean a thing. Because Mukarjee is a goddamned, godless, atheist Marxist. And the only thing that he holds sacred is Che Guevara's foreskin.See more »
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"Geliefde Man"Music by Stanley Myers
Lyrics by Jeremy Taylor
Sung by Dean Hart See more »
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