Wrong Is Right

Wrong Is Right
	Original film poster
Directed by	Richard Brooks
Produced by	Richard Brooks; Andrew Fogelson; George Grenville
Screenplay by	Richard Brooks
Based on	The Better Angels; by Charles McCarry
Starring	Sean Connery; Robert Conrad; George Grizzard; Hardy Krüger; Ron Moody; Leslie Nielsen; Katharine Ross; John Saxon; Henry Silva; G. D. Spradlin; Robert Webber; Rosalind Cash;
Music by	Artie Kane
Cinematography	Fred J. Koenekamp
Edited by	George Grenville
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	April 16, 1982;
Running time	117 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$3,583,513[2]

Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man with the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 American comedy thriller film directed by Richard Brooks from his own script based on Charles McCarry's novel The Better Angels. The film, starring Sean Connery as TV news reporter Patrick Hale, is about the theft of two suitcase nukes.[1]

Plot

In the near future, violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths. Patrick Hale, a globe-trotting reporter with access to a staggering array of world leaders, has ventured to the Arab country of Hegreb to interview his old acquaintance, King Ibn Awad.

Awad has learned that the President of the United States may have issued orders for his removal; as a result, Awad is apparently making arrangements to deliver two suitcase nukes to a terrorist, with the intention of detonating them in Israel and the United States, unless the President resigns.

In the intricate plot that unfolds, nothing is quite the way it seems, and Hale finds himself caught between political leaders, revolutionaries, CIA agents and other figures, trying to get to the bottom of it all.

Cast

Sean Connery as Patrick Hale
Robert Conrad as General Wombat
George Grizzard as President Bedford Forrest “Frosty” Lockwood
Katharine Ross as Sally Blake
G.D. Spradlin as Jack Philindros
John Saxon as Homer Hubbard
Henry Silva as Rafeeq
Leslie Nielsen as Franklin Mallory
Hardy Krüger as Helmut Unger
Robert Webber as Harvey
Ron Moody as King Awad
Rosalind Cash as Mrs. Ford
Dean Stockwell as Hacker
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Young Girl
Mickey Jones as Gunman

Awards

Rosalind Cash was nominated for an Image Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture.

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References

Canby, Vincent (April 16, 1982). "'WRONG IS RIGHT,' GLOBE-HOPPING THRILLER". The New York Times.
"Wrong is right". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 15, 2007.

External links

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[NYT-1] Canby, Vincent (April 16, 1982). "'WRONG IS RIGHT,' GLOBE-HOPPING THRILLER". The New York Times.

[MOJO-2] "Wrong is right". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 15, 2007.