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The Wilby Conspiracy ()

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A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.
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Shack Twala
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Jim Keogh
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Major Horn
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Rina Van Niekirk
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Anil Mukerjee
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Persis Ray
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Van Heerden (as Ryk De Gooyer)
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Blane Van Niekirk
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District Commissioner
Joe De Graft ...
Wilby Xaba
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Gordon
Abdulla Sunado ...
Village Headman
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Prosecuting Counsel
Peter Pearce ...
Highway Policeman
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Freddy Achiang ...
Shepherd Boy (uncredited)
Bryan Epsom ...
Judge (uncredited)

Directed by

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Ralph Nelson

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Rod Amateau ... (screenplay) and
Harold Nebenzal ... (screenplay)
 
Peter Driscoll ... (novel)

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Martin Baum ... producer
Helmut Dantine ... executive producer
Paul M. Heller ... producer
Stanley Sopel ... associate producer

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Stanley Myers

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John Coquillon ... (photographed by)

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Ernest Walter

Editorial Department

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John Grover ... first assistant editor (uncredited)

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Miriam Brickman

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Harry Pottle

Art Direction by

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John Hoesli

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Betty Glasow ... hairdresser
Freddie Williamson ... makeup artist

Production Management

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Robert Watts ... production manager

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Ivo Nightingale ... assistant director
Chris Kenny ... second assistant director (uncredited)

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Denise Exshaw ... set dresser
Dick Frift ... construction manager (as Richard Frift)
Bill Gold ... poster designer (uncredited)

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Gordon K. McCallum ... sound recordist
Colin Miller ... sound editor
Peter Sutton ... sound recordist
John Hayward ... re-recording mixer (uncredited)

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Kit West ... special effects
Philip Stokes ... special effects (uncredited)

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Charles Staffell ... process photography (as Charles D. Staffell)

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Bob Simmons ... stunts
Roberta Gibbs ... stunt performer (uncredited)

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Robin Browne ... camera operator: second unit
Herbert Smith ... camera operator
George Whitear ... still photographer
Michael Garfath ... focus puller: second unit (uncredited)
Ronald Lenoir ... set rigger (uncredited)
Julian White ... focus puller (uncredited)

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Rosemary Burrows ... wardrobe supervisor

Music Department

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Irshad H. Khan ... musician: sitar (as Imrat Khan) / musician: surbahar (as Imrat Khan)
Themba L.S. Matebesi ... African music consultant
Irshad H. Khan ... composer: additional music (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Trudy von Trotha ... continuity
Rob Simmons ... script coordinator (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Rod Amateau ... action sequence director
Robert Rowan ... assistant to producer
Olin Rushin ... production assistant
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Plot Summary

Having spent ten years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) 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 (Prunella Gee) and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh (Sir Michael Caine), 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 (Nicol Williamson) of the South African State Security Bureau, and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their destination. Written by garykmcd

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Taglines In the fight for freedom, you have to break all the rules. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Le vent de la violence (France)
  • La conspiración (Spain)
  • Η συνωμοσία του Γουίλμπι (Greece)
  • Sorte diamanter (Denmark)
  • Os Caminhos da Liberdade (Portugal)
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  • 105 min
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Trivia Most of this movie is set in South Africa, in Johannesburg and Cape Town, but due to the political sensitivity of anti-Apartheid, no attempt was made to film there. See more »
Goofs 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 »
Movie Connections Featured in In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1993). See more »
Soundtracks All the Wishing in the World 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.
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