Directed by:
Gavin MillarScreenplay:
William BoydCinematography:
Roger PrattComposer:
Stanley MyersCast:
Michael Hordern, Donald Pleasence, Denholm Elliott, Herbert Lom, Clive Mantle, Jack Shepherd, John Harding, Renée Soutendijk, Sverre Anker Ousdal (more)Plots(1)
In a case of mistaken identity, mild-mannered wildlife writer William Boot (Michael Maloney - Love on a Branch Line, Truly Madly Deeply) is sent as a foreign correspondent to the fictional East African country of Ishmaelia on the eve of a war. Boot flounders through a sea of wild rumours and a horde of sleazy reporters desperate for a story - any story. If he thinks things are thought now, wait until he stumbles onto something journalists work for all their lives! (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Michael Hordern
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Shogun (1980) (series)
Donald Pleasence
UK
Best movies:
The Great Escape (1963)
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Denholm Elliott
UK
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Bangkok Hilton (1989) (series)
Herbert Lom
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Spartacus (1960)
Clive Mantle
UK
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After Thomas (2006) (TV movie)
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Jack Shepherd
UK
Best movies:
The Last Valley (1971)
Escape from Sobibor (1987) (TV movie)
Into the Storm (2009) (TV movie)
John Harding
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
The Bourne Identity (1988) (series)
Renée Soutendijk
Netherlands
Best movies:
Peter the Great (1986) (series)
The Fourth Man (1983)
Spetters (1980)
Sverre Anker Ousdal
Norway
Best movies:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Charles Pemberton
UK
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Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Miss Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (1985) (TV movie)
Fred Pearson
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Wives and Daughters (1999) (series)
Priest (1994)
Inspector George Gently (2007) (series)
Matthew Scurfield
UK
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Secret Adversary (1983) (TV movie)
Black Beauty (1994)
Michael Maloney
UK
Best movies:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
Hamlet (1996)
Henry V (1989)
Maurice Travail
France
Best movies:
Holy Year (1976)
The Big Store (1973)
Incorrigible (1975)
Helen Lindsay
India
Best movies:
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Tony Haygarth
UK
Best movies:
Holocaust (1978) (series)
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Chicken Run (2000)
Nicola Pagett
Egypt
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Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
A Woman of Substance (1984) (TV movie)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Nicholas Barnes
UK
Best movies:
The Brothers Lionheart (1977)
Outland (1981)
The Guys (2002)
Gwen Nelson
UK
Best movies:
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
Rosamund Greenwoood
UK
Best movies:
A Night to Remember (1958)
Macbeth (1948)
Night of the Demon (1957)