Sean Connery
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May 14, 1982 · Wrong Is Right: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross. A TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc.
Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man with the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 American political satire comedy thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Richard Brooks and starring Sean Connery as TV news reporter Patrick Hale.
Sean Connery stars as Patrick Hale, a globe trotting TV reporter who uncovers the story of a life time. Connery shows off a considerable talent for doing black comedy throughout and comes across well as a cynical reporter who ends up virtually being the voice of reason towards the films end.
When Hale travels to the Middle East to interview a prominent member of Arab royalty, he gets entangled in an intricate plot that involves the American president (George Grizzard), a terrorist ...
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A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. 81 IMDb 5.6 1 h 57 min 1982. R. Action · Drama · Suspense · Bleak. Join Prime. Watch with Prime. Start your 30-day free trial. Rent. HD $3.99.
Overview. Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas.
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.
Wrong Is Right. 1982 · 1 hr 58 min. R. Comedy · Thriller. A superstar TV reporter finds more than he bargained for while investigating possible links between the U.S. government and a terrorist group. Subtitles: English. Starring: Sean Connery George Grizzard Robert Conrad Katharine Ross G.D. Spradlin. Directed by: Richard Brooks.
Wrong Is Right represents Richard Brooks' shriek of protest at what he sees as the insane, downward spiral of world history over the past decade. Part political satire, part doomsday melodrama and part intellectual graffiti scribbled on the screen, film is impossible to pigeon-hole.
Sean Connery stars as globe-trotting ace TV news reporter Partick Hale, who is on the trail of a terrorist offering the sale of a nuclear bomb to a Mid-East oil country. Hale juggles Arab sheiks and international intelligence agents to get at the story.
