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Wrong Is Right is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Brooks released in USA on 16 april 1982 with Sean Connery

Wrong Is Right (1982)

Wrong Is Right
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Released in USA 16 april 1982
Length 1h57
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating56% 2.800842.800842.800842.800842.80084

Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man With the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 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, and deals with media bias, reality television, government conspiracy, and Islamic terrorism.

Synopsis

In the near future, violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths. Patrick Hale (Sean Connery), 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 (Ron Moody).

Actors

Sean Connery

(Patrick Hale)Katharine Ross

(Sally Blake)Robert Conrad

(General Wombat)John Saxon

(Homer Hubbard)Henry Silva

(Rafeeq)
And :
Leslie Nielsen
Dean Stockwell
Hardy Krüger
Ron Moody
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