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User Rating:
7.8/10   142 votes
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Writers:
Gerald Seymour (adaptation)
Gerald Seymour (book)
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Release Date:
25 October 1982 (UK) more
Genre:
Thriller more
Tagline:
The game of death
Plot:
Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
The best film I have seen about The Troubles more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ray Lonnen ... Harry Brown

Benjamin Whitrow ... Davidson
Nicholas Day ... Bannen
Denys Hawthorne ... Minister of Defence
Geoffrey Russell ... Home Secretary
Edmund Kente ... Private secretary
Robert Morris ... The Right Hon. Henry Danby M.P.
Brigid O'Hara ... Mrs. Danby
Teresa Lee ... 1st Daughter
Katy Durham-Matthews ... 2nd Daughter (as Katy Durham-Mathews)
Gary Waldhorn ... Commissioner of Police
Geoffrey Leesley ... Asst. Commissioner
Geoffrey Chater ... Col. George Frost
Noel Johnson ... Gen. Sir Jocelyn Fairbairn
Robert Boyd ... Adjutant
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Belfast Assassin (USA) (video title)
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Runtime:
180 min | UK:60 min (3 episodes) | UK:160 min (DVD)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Certification:
Australia:M | UK:15 (original rating) (1989) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2006)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The man whose car Harry hijacks at the end of the film (in order to pursue Downes) remains unnamed in the film and the viewer never finds out his profession, but in the novel he was a plastic sales representative. Thus, the credit for "sales representative" in the cast refers to him. more
Quotes:
Harry Brown: He had to die. Don't you understand that? more

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10 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
The best film I have seen about The Troubles, 15 November 2000
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Author: Mark R. Leeper from Old Bridge, NJ

A British agent tries to infiltrate the IRA to find an assassin and capture him before he himself is found out. I keep trying to get people to watch this film. This is the best treatment I have seen about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the causes and the futility. Both the British and the IRA are intelligent, and we see the reasons each side does what it does. The tension is very well handled. The film PATRIOT GAMES pays tribute by borrowing some of the music, but it does not match the quality of the storytelling.

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