Wrong Is Right (1982)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production:
Running Times: 117 mins
Format: Metrocolor     35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Executive Producer: Andrew Fogelson
Producer: Richard Brooks
Associate Producer: George Grenville

SCRIPT
Script: Richard Brooks
Novel: The Better Angels by Charles McCarry

DIRECTION
Director: Richard Brooks

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Fred Koenekamp

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: George Grenville

MUSIC
Music: Artie Kane

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Additional Make Up: Jay Cannistraci
Hair: Lillian Barb
Costume Designer: Ray Summers

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Edward C. Carfagno
Art Director: Karl Hueglin
Set Decorator: Arthur Jeph

MISCELLANEOUS
Helicopter Pilot: Al Cerullo

LOCATIONS
Locations: Alamogordo, Otero County, New Mexico, USA; White Sands National Monument, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: William H. Burton
Stunts: Sandy Alexander, Bill Burton, Gary Combs, Frank Ferrara, Mic Rodgers, Victoria Vanderkloot, Ted White

CAST
Sean Connery (Patrick Hale)
George Grizzard (President Lockwood)
Robert Conrad (General Wombat)
Katharine Ross (Sally Blake)
John Saxon (Homer Hubbard)
Henry Silva (Rafeeq)
Hardy Kruger (Helmut Unger)
Toby Hughes (TV cameraman)
G.D. Spradlin (Philindros)
Leslie Nielsen (Mallory)
Paul Lambert (Defense Secretary)
Robert Webber (Harvey)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (young girl)
Dean Stockwell (Hacker)
Rosalind Cash (Mrs Ford)
Tony March (Abu)
Marianne Marks (Suzy)
Ron Moody (King Awad)
Keith McConnell (Smythe)
Cherie Michan (Erika)
Tom McFadden (Billy Bob Harper)
Ivy Bethune (housewife)
Robert Alan Browne (taxi)
Barry Cahill (husband)
Julie Condra
Jeffrey Wheat (Mike)
Joseph Whipp (John Brown)
Myron Natwick (Admiral - uncredited)
David Frankham (British reporter - uncredited)
Charles Hutchins (cab driver - uncredited)
Clare Grenville (campaigner - uncredited)
Angelo Bertolini (cardinal - uncredited)
Donald Bishop (Congressman - uncredited)
Alexander Zale (Faheem - uncredited)
Art Evans, Mio Polo (guards - both uncredited)
Mickey Jones (gunman - uncredited)
Milt Jamin (Hagreb doctor - uncredited)
Denis Hoppe (Hagreb officer - uncredited)
Pamela V. Kobbe (Hale's secretary - uncredited)
Ken Bibeau (Marcus - uncredited)
Ray Conners, Don F. Dunwell, Ken Gale, Merrill M. Mazuer, Kerry Sullivan, Don Worsham (newsmen - all uncredited)
Melinda Casey, Melanie Stensland (newswoman - both uncredited)
Dawna O'Brien (President's secretary - uncredited)
George Skaff (Qadee - uncredited)
Kiva Lawrence (receptionist - uncredited)
Frank Patton (riot cop - uncredited)
Suzanne Reynolds (TV reporter - uncredited)
Edward L. Moskowitz (technician - uncredited)
Ed Pennybacker (US reporter - uncredited)
Dianne L. Wilson (woman with dog - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

In the very near future, two portable nuclear warheads are stolen by terrorists. TV newsman Patrick Hale determines to track them down and expose them in a world dominated by television - but he finds intrigue and skulduggery at the heart US Government and suddenly his life is on the line...

An odd and largely unlikeable film that nevertheless is now of some interest for its scarily prescient plot. It's rather to convoluted for its own good and many of the gags fall flat, though in gerenal the satirical barbs are sharp and on target. It's a shame that the characters and the plot weren't that little bit more enjoyable.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Finland
Rating: K-16

USA
Rating: R

1982
April
16: USA - theatrical release

October
9: Japan - theatrical release

November
19: Finland - theatrical release

A very funny look at the world.

In a moment World War III... but 1st a word from our sponsor.

Flammen am Horizont - German title
Kamera käy - tapa! - Finnish title
The Man with the Deadly Lens - UK title
Obiettivo mortale - Italian title
Objetivo mortal - Spanish title
En sekund före noll - Swedish title

KEYWORDS

book into film, the future, journalists, nuclear weapons, politics, reporters, satire, secret agents, spies, television, terrorists

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009