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Synopsis: A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Richard Brooks
Actors: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
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Year:
1982
117 min
87 Views

Go to commercial!

How is he?

Commercial!

Go to commercial!

Are you all right?

Yeah.

That was Awad's car.

Are you all right?

Yeah.

Are you all right?

Mike!

New York calling!

Mike!

Press.

It's the boss.

Press.

Mr. Hale.

Sally Blake,

Globe Syndicate.

Mr. Hale.

Well, what are you

doing here?

Mr. Hale.

A story on

what you're doing here.

Mr. Hale.

Let's see...

You were an actor?

Mr. Hale.

And a coal miner,

Mr. Hale.

and a bartender,

and a sailor,

Mr. Hale.

and a soldier of misfortune,

et cetera, et cetera.

Mr. Hale.

How'd you end up

in television?

Mr. Hale.

I was invented for it.

Mr. Hale.

Instant heroes--

Mr. Hale.

Football stars,

Mr. Hale.

baseball,

golf and tennis stars.

Mr. Hale.

A galaxy of stars.

Mr. Hale.

Famous names,

gorgeous dames,

Mr. Hale.

crashing cars...

superstars, like me.

Mr. Hale.

Wish it were me.

Mr. Hale.

Married?

Mr. Hale.

Uh-uh. Just lucky.

Mr. Hale.

Lots of girls?

Mr. Hale.

Oh, off and on,

hit and run.

Mr. Hale.

No commitments,

Mr. Hale.

like the rest

of television.

Mr. Hale.

How is the love life

of a superstar?

Mr. Hale.

Oh, it has

its ups and downs.

Mr. Hale.

What's the best thing

you've done?

Mr. Hale.

Not written

my autobiography.

Mr. Hale.

Mind if I use that?

Mr. Hale.

Hell, that isn't news.

Mr. Hale.

Besides, you've already

got it on your tape.

Mr. Hale.

Why did King Awad send for you?

I'll know tomorrow.

Why did King Awad send for you?

Why is tomorrow

Why did King Awad send for you?

the most important day

in his life?

Why did King Awad send for you?

It is?

Death to America!

Death to America!

Death to America!

Death to President Lockwood!

Death to Jews!

Death to President Lockwood!

Can you operate

a movie camera?

Death to President Lockwood!

Even this one.

Death to President Lockwood!

Okay, cover me.

Death to President Lockwood!

Hey, wait!

Death to President Lockwood!

Hey, wait!

Wait.

Death to President Lockwood!

Death to Jews!

Death to President Lockwood!

Where is he?

Death to President Lockwood!

Get the cow.

Death to President Lockwood!

[SHOUTING]

Death to President Lockwood!

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

Death to President Lockwood!

[GUNSHOTS]

Bloody fools.

Look at them.

[GUNSHOTS]

Lovely.

[GUNSHOTS]

I am not American.

[GUNSHOTS]

I am not President Lockwood,

[GUNSHOTS]

and I am not now

and never was--

[GUNSHOTS]

Easy, easy.

[GUNSHOTS]

And so help me, God,

I never intend to be a Jew!

[GUNSHOTS]

You're going to have

to pay $200 for the cow.

[GUNSHOTS]

Thank you.

Those bums,

Thank you.

they'll rob me

when they see my money.

Thank you.

If you don't pay,

Thank you.

first they'll bury you,

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Charles McCarry

Charles McCarry (born 1930 in Massachusetts) is an American writer, primarily of spy fiction, and a former undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency who The Wall Street Journal described in 2013 as the dean of American spy writers; The New Republic magazine calls him "poet laureate of the CIA."; and Otto Penzler says he has produced some "poetic masterpieces." William Zinsser calls him a "political novelist:"Jonathan Yardley, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the Washington Post, calls him a "'serious' novelist" whose work may include "the best novel ever written about life in high-stakes Washington, DC." more…

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