The Rainbow Warrior (TV 1993)

This film tells the true story of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior (commanded by Jon Voight), in Auckland Harbor in 1984, and the subsequent investigation by the New ... See full summary »

Director:

Michael Tuchner

Writers:

Martin Copeland, Scott Busby

Stars:

Jon Voight, Sam Neill, Bruno Lawrence

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jon Voight	...	Peter Willcox
Sam Neill	...	Alan Galbraith
Bruno Lawrence
Kerry Fox	...	Andrea Joyce
John Callen
Stacey Pickren
Michael Mizrahi
Tony Barry
Peter Hambleton	...	Maury Whitham
Greg Johnson	...	Bert White
Stephen O'Rourke	...	Eddie
Stig Eldred	...	Steve Sawyer
Lucy Lawless	...	Jane Redmond
Dale Stevens	...	Amy
Alison Bruce	...	Leslie Holbrook

Storyline

This film tells the true story of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior (commanded by Jon Voight), in Auckland Harbor in 1984, and the subsequent investigation by the New Zealand Police (led by Sam Neill) which revealed French government responsibility. The ship was on its way to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

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Plot Keywords:

independent film | based on true story

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA New Zealand

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 May 1993 (Germany)

Also Known As:

The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

Filming Locations:

Auckland Central Business District, Auckland, New Zealand

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bonny Dore Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The late Bruno Lawrence, who plays a detective working under Sam Neill's Alan Galbraith character, played Galbraith himself in an earlier made-for-TV dramatization of the same events in the late 1980s.

User Reviews

A good recount.

A very good adaptation of the real events that surrounded the Rainbow Warrior bombing with very good performances all round. Sam Neil proves again what a great actor he is as he plays real life Alan Galbraith. Jon Voight does a particularly good turn as skipper Peter Wilcox.

The French are quite rightly portrayed as the enemy in this film because they are and notably showed how stupid they were leaving trails for the New Zealand police to follow. They after all in particular Galbraith almost toppled the French government with their discoveries a giant killing act indeed.

There are some good scenes in this film some quite surprising. The scene in which the Rongelap man describes his people succumbing to the effects of radiation poisoning following the 1954 15 megaton thermonuclear 'Bravo' shot on Bikini is one of the most disturbing descriptions that I have ever heard. All in all a good film and a good purchase on DVD.