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Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man with the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 American political satire comedy thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Richard Brooks and starring Sean Connery as TV news reporter Patrick Hale.
May 14, 1982 · Wrong Is Right: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross. A TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc.
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas.
Patrick Hale (Sean Connery) is a slick television journalist with impressive ratings. When Hale travels to the Middle East to interview a prominent member of Arab royalty, he gets entangled...
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- Comedy, Drama
- R
WRONG IS RIGHT. Action. Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas.
A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. 81 IMDb 5.6 1 h 57 min 1982. R. Action · Drama · Suspense · Bleak. Join Prime. Watch with Prime. Start your 30-day free trial. Rent. HD $3.99.
Perhaps the oddest major Hollywood feature of 1982. Veering wildly between a quite well-written satire on the contemporary American political scene and a very ham-fisted nuclear blackmail thriller...
