Sleeping Dogs Page #3

Synopsis: Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
Director(s): Roger Donaldson
Production: Grindstone Media
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
NOT RATED
Year:
1977
107 min
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- Left, right! Left, right!

- What the hell...! Run!

Left, right! Left, right!

(Screams)

Get your bloody hands off her!

Aaah!

Oh, Jesus! Aaah!

You bastards!

Run!

Oh, Jesus!

They got... They got my ID card.

(Seagulls squawk)

Hi, I was looking at your boat.

It's leaking a bit.

Where's Cousins?

I don't know.

Probably up in the channel, fishing.

(Chirping)

(Owl hoots)

(Distant explosions)

Jesus.

(Chirping, buzzing)

(Dog barks)

What's going on? Let me go!

What the...!

Aaargh!

What do you want? Christ! Let me go!

(Groans)

Jesus...!

Do you know him?

That's Cousins.

( Dramatic music)

Hey, I know him. Stop! I know him!

I know him!

Bloody ask him! He'll tell you!

Oh, Jesus Christ...

Ask him. He'll tell you.

Look, I know that jack.

What's his name?

(Pants)

(Squealing)

(Distant cries of pain)

Jesperson.

Open up, you bastards!

I want to see Jesperson!

I want to see Jesperson!

(Distant tortured cries)

(Cries continue)

(Footsteps approach)

(Pants)

(Footsteps)

Smith. I'm sorry

I didn't recognize you the other day.

- School.

- Right.

I read your file.

- Can you get me out of here?

- It's not going to be all that easy.

Please, what's...

What's going on? I mean, I...

I don't even know

what I'm supposed to have done.

Well, Smith, there really are

quite a few things, aren't there?

I mean, you haven't registered,

you had in your possession

an illegal weapon and ammunition,

you had an illegal radio transmitter,

you're an associate

of two known saboteurs.

Hidden on various parts of your island

were explosives and a variety of weapons.

Under present law,

just for the items in your possession,

a military court could have you executed.

Executed?

I can explain all those things.

I'm not interested in your explanations.

Listen, it will take perhaps two months

to fully prepare a trial.

You will be convicted and shot.

What?

Unless you make a full confession.

Voluntary, of course.

How do you mean? Confess to what?

Well, that you're a revolutionary.

Give a full and detailed account

of who supports you,

where your arms and supplies

come from

and that your aim is the overthrow

of established democratic values.

- But it's not true.

- If you made this statement,

then I would be able to guarantee you

safe passage out of this country.

You would have your life,

you would have freedom.

It wouldn't be true,

I'm not a revolutionary.

Does that matter?

The details of the revolutionary movement

are true enough.

The rest isn't important.

It's important to me!

Do you want to be shot?

Because that's your choice.

I'd have to leave the country?

We couldn't let you stay here, could we?

Within six months,

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Ian Mune

Ian Barry Mune (born 1941) is a New Zealand character actor, director, and screenwriter. His screen acting career spans four decades and more than 50 roles. His work as a director includes hit comedy Came a Hot Friday, an adaptation of classic New Zealand play The End of the Golden Weather, and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, the sequel to Once Were Warriors. Mune was born in Auckland, and educated at Wesley College in the same city. In the 1991 New Year Honours he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the theatre and film industry. He was married to the writer Josie Mune until her death in 2015. more…

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