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.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.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.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Helmut Unger
- (as Hardy Kruger)
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- TriviaThis movie has been said to have possibly anticipated future world events. James Plath at "DVD Town" said of this movie that, "it's impossible to watch it more than twenty years later without seeing a ton of eerie similarities to the Bush White House", while Paul McElligott at "Celluloid Heroes" wrote: "The idea of the U.S. going to war in the Middle East over dubious claims of terrorists possessing weapons of mass destruction, specifically atomic bombs, is central to the plot. The discovery of the aforementioned bombs dangling from an antenna on top of the World Trade Center is probably far more chilling now than the filmmakers could ever have intended."
- GoofsObvious stunt double in place of Sean Connery in the opening skydiving sequence.
- Quotes
Philindros: I'll disarm the other bomb.
Patrick Hale: Just in the nick of time.
Philindros: Yep.
Patrick Hale: Convenient.
Philindros: Oh, I'd say lucky.
Patrick Hale: I thought for a while, the CIA had... arranged the suitcases. Like King Awad's suicide.
Philindros: Mr. Hale, we only try to do what's right.
Patrick Hale: Even when it's wrong?
Philindros: If it's good for America, it can't be wrong. Right?
Patrick Hale: What's next?
President Lockwood: [Scene cuts to Oval Office] War!
- Crazy creditsFilmed in New York, Washington, D.C., Texas, New Mexico, France, Italy and Hagreb. [Hagreb is a fictional country featured in the movie, and France and Italy appear only in archive footage.]
- Alternate versionsThe UK video release versions entitled "The Man with the Deadly Lens" were cut first by 2 seconds, then re-released cut by 7 seconds to reduce footage of a bomb being made from a light bulb. However, the DVD released in 2004 entitled "Wrong is Right" is uncut.
HOWEVER, it predicted so much of what has happened in the world since, that it is so prophetic as to be scary. I won't say anything from the movie, but if you watch it and realize when it was made, it's incredible and shows the true genius of those who made it.
Sean Connery leads a cast which is superb.
You have to remember, this was before CNN became the go to news channel.
Enjoy.
- JeffBJames
- Feb 6, 2007
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- Flammen am Horizont
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,583,513
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,412,646
- May 16, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $3,583,513
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