The Man with the Deadly Lens
(1982)
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The Man with the Deadly Lens
(1982)
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| Sean Connery | ... |
Patrick Hale
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George Grizzard | ... |
President Lockwood
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| Robert Conrad | ... |
Gen. Wombat
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| Katharine Ross | ... |
Sally Blake
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| G.D. Spradlin | ... |
Philindros
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| John Saxon | ... |
Homer Hubbard
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| Henry Silva | ... |
Rafeeq
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| Leslie Nielsen | ... |
Mallory
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| Robert Webber | ... |
Harvey
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Rosalind Cash | ... |
Mrs. Ford
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| Hardy Krüger | ... |
Helmut Unger
(as Hardy Kruger)
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| Dean Stockwell | ... |
Hacker
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| Ron Moody | ... |
King Awad
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Cherie Michan | ... |
Erika
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Tony March | ... |
Abu
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A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies. Written by Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Richard Brooks' "Wrong Is Right" is a vicious and savage satire of many aspects of society. Television, news reporting, politics and pleasure domes are just a few of the targets Brooks' aims at in this truly underrated film.
I really don't want to give away the plot because one of the true pleasures of this movie is Brooks' surprises and payoffs. So let me in a carefully vague way give a hint of what it's all about. Sean Connery plays a television reporter (notice how in many of Brooks' films, that the protagonists are reporters ex: Fever Pitch, In Cold Blood, Bite the Bullet)who gets involved with a terrorist group and ends up in a bigger mess than he anticipated.
But that's not the whole story. But I dare not say anymore because the film depends on the element of surprise.