Wrong Is Right Page #4

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
89 Views

Mike.

Give me her exact words.

Nothing else?

Give me her exact words.

She had to see

her cousin--

Give me her exact words.

business, urgent.

Give me her exact words.

Damn. Move it!

Give me her exact words.

[HONKING]

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

[HONKING]

[]

Two suitcases...

three feet long...

Two suitcases...

two-and-a-half feet

high...

Two suitcases...

nine to ten inches

thick.

Two suitcases...

Weight,

about 90 pounds.

Two suitcases...

Highly radioactive.

Two suitcases...

[]

Now.

[SCREAMING]

[TELEPHONE RINGING]

[SCREAMING]

[TELEPHONE RINGING]

[SIRENS APPROACHING]

This all happened

four hours ago.

Sally Blake, American reporter,

killed instantly.

This all happened

four hours ago.

The police here claim

that the man with her

This all happened

four hours ago.

was an Israeli secret agent.

This all happened

four hours ago.

The terrorist Jew

dies by his own bomb.

This all happened

four hours ago.

No question.

This all happened

four hours ago.

The woman is spying

for the CIA.

This all happened

four hours ago.

No question!

This all happened

four hours ago.

No question.

This all happened

four hours ago.

I tried to reach

Jack Philindros,

This all happened

four hours ago.

director of the CIA.

This all happened

four hours ago.

He wasn't in.

He wasn't out.

This all happened

four hours ago.

He was, I suppose,

somewhere in between.

This all happened

four hours ago.

Said Homer Hubbard,

embassy official--

This all happened

four hours ago.

Sally Blake

was murdered

This all happened

four hours ago.

to suppress

the truth.

This all happened

four hours ago.

The truth about what?

This all happened

four hours ago.

About whoever

killed her.

This all happened

four hours ago.

What's happened

to the American image?

This all happened

four hours ago.

How did America

become a dirty name?

This all happened

four hours ago.

Mr. President--

This all happened

four hours ago.

[SHOUTING ON TV]

This all happened

four hours ago.

We don't hate

the American people.

Except the Jews!

No question!

We don't hate

the American people.

And President

Lockwood!

We don't hate

the American people.

No question!

We don't hate

the American people.

[CHEERING]

We don't hate

the American people.

Jack Philindros

just phoned from his car.

We don't hate

the American people.

He suggests we alert

the Secretary of Defense,

We don't hate

the American people.

the Vice President,

General Wombat--

We don't hate

the American people.

Do it.

We don't hate

the American people.

Can do.

We don't hate

the American people.

The Post says that

We don't hate

the American people.

Mallory's coming out

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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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