Gabriel Byrne
Nicholas "Nick" Mullen
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Nov 21, 1986 · Defense of the Realm: Directed by David Drury. With Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen. After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.
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Defence of the Realm is a 1986 British political thriller film directed by David Drury, starring Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, and Denholm Elliott, with Robbie Coltrane in a supporting role. The film takes its title from the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 , passed in the United Kingdom at the start of the First World War , which gave the ...
Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A quality movie pitting a government, and its secrets, versus the press. There is the usual pro-press, anti ...
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Powered by JustWatch. "Defense of the Realm" is a newspaper thriller about a touchy investigation into British security matters. The story ends the way many newspaper stories end - inconclusively - but the movie ends with a shocking event that suggests the British and their U.S. allies would do anything to defend the American nuclear presence ...
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Synopsis. On a foggy night a car containing two men is pursued by police. The radio is discussing the country being on high alert due to a terrorist attack in Ankara. Going down a dead end one, Steven, one the men escapes over a high barbed wire fence but the other one is caught. Dennis Markham (Ian Bannen), a prominent Member of Parliament is ...
Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth. David Drury. Director. Martin Stellman. Writer. A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base.
