Wrong Is Right
1982
Broad political farce which follows the exploits of a world-travelling TV news correspondent Patrick Hale (Sean Connery) working for the World Television Network, who uncovers a terrorist plot to get hold of a nuclear bomb to sell to a Middle-Eastern oil country. This is an often funny yet unnerving satire, where the President .. Read more
| Starring | Sean Connery, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, Hardy Kruger |
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| Director | Richard Brooks |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Wrong Is Right
Broad political farce which follows the exploits of a world-travelling TV news correspondent Patrick Hale (Sean Connery) working for the World Television Network, who uncovers a terrorist plot to get hold of a nuclear bomb to sell to a Middle-Eastern oil country. This is an often funny yet unnerving satire, where the President of the United States (George Grizzard) tries to deny to the public that there's a bomb, while his political opponent tries to prove its existences for electoral gain, and chauvinist General Wombat (Robert Conrad) just wants to bomb the whole goddamn Middle-East....
| Starring | Sean Connery, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, Hardy Kruger, George Grizzard, Ron Moody, Leslie Nielsen, Dean Stockwell, Rosalind Cash, John Saxon, Henry Silva, G.D. Spradlin, Robert Webber |
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| Director | Richard Brooks |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 23 Aug 2004 Production year: 1982 |
| Format | DVD |
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The first — and best — of an increasingly inane series of comedy musicals starring popular radio bandleader Kay Kyser. Here, Kyser makes his screen debut with his musicians and his nonsensical “Kollege of Musical Knowledge” quiz. The plot involves a reluctant Kyser being lured to Hollywood, where producer Adolphe Menjou is under orders to star him in a hit. Chaos and confusion ensue when the scriptwriters (Edward Everett Horton and Hobart Cavanaugh), confronted with the nondescript, bespectacled Kyser, are unable to come up with a plot. A mix of childish rubbish with a nice spoof on Hollywood studio execs and methods, directed by David Butler, whose brainchild this money-spinner was.
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Perhaps the oddest major Hollywood feature of 1982. Veering wildly between a quite well-written satire on the... read more on Time Out
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Prescient but surprisingly dull
Richard Brooks was a prolific director who had the ability to make wonderful pictures ('In cold blood', for instance) and complete duds ('The brothers Karamazov'). Here, he comes up with some terrific material (the American President gets into trouble over a CIA assassination of an Arab head of state, setting off a wave of suicide attacks and terrorist threats, including a nuclear assault on New York City), and finds an interesting, scatty, satirical tone, but does absolutely nothing with it. His pacing is right off (the film is at least two reels too long) and the actors can't seem to find the right mood, looking stranded half the time amid the cheesily cheap production. More effort and much more snap, and this is a film we'd still be talking about today. As it is, it's just a curiosity (and for star-spotters, look out for the very young Jennifer Jason Leigh being interviewed at the beginning).
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