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Power Play is a 1978 British-Canadian political thriller film starring Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings, based on the 1968 non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak.
Nov 3, 1978 · Power Play: Directed by Martyn Burke. With Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence, Barry Morse. In an unnamed country rife with internal troubles, Narriman, a loyal army colonel, has his conscience pricked into planning a coup d'etat, under the influence of a dissident intellectual.
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- Thriller, Drama
- Martyn Burke
- 1978-11-03
A military coup in an unnamed country is the basis for this 1970s political thriller starring David Hemmings, Peter O'Toole and Donald Pleasence. David Hemmings plays Colonel Narriman, an apparently decent army officer on the verge of retirement.
Power Play is a 1978 British-Canadian thriller film starring Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings, based on the non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak. A small group of military officers frustrated by the corruption of a fictional contemporary European government decide that they must overthrow the current ...
- Martyn Burke
The 1978 British-Canadian political thriller Power Play has the almost certainly unique distinction of being a movie inspired by a military instruction manual - Edward N. Luttwak's 1968 non-fiction book Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook to be precise; essentially a how-to guide on overthrowing a nation's government by the staging of a military ...
- Martyn Burke
A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak.
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