Wrong Is Right

Wrong Is Right (1982)

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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. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.

Date of release
1982-04-16
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (63)
Runtime
1h 57m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Richard Brooks

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $3.6M
  • Budget: $10M
  • Earned 0.4× its budget
  • Based on: The Better Angels

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. The film, based on Charles McCarry's novel The Better Angels (1979), is about the theft of two suitcase nukes.

Production

Filming locations include El Paso, New York, Washington, D.C., Texas, New Mexico, France, Italy, the Alamo in San Antonio, White Sands National Park, Alamogordo and Albuquerque, and others.

Richard Brooks made a product placement deal with the Sony, which allowed use of Sony television monitors and news equipment.

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