Wrong Is Right Page #11

Synopsis: A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Director(s): Richard Brooks
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
R
Year:
1982
117 min
100 Views


Mike works for you?

Who switched the cameras?

Details.

Who switched the cameras?

But that means Awad was killed

before Lockwood gave the order.

Who switched the cameras?

Before!

Who switched the cameras?

Details.

Who switched the cameras?

All you people

get bogged down in details.

Who switched the cameras?

All you people?

What people?

Who switched the cameras?

You're talking about me.

Who switched the cameras?

You've made me

an accessory to murder!

Who switched the cameras?

That's not serious.

You're an amateur.

Who switched the cameras?

That's serious.

Who switched the cameras?

I don't believe this.

You'd say anything for the CIA.

Who switched the cameras?

Anything.

Who switched the cameras?

Even the truth.

Why?

Why hide a cheap Bible?

Why?

[CLICKING]

You, wait.

I get something,

we go to the railroad.

You, wait.

You, call the police.

You, anything moves,

kill it.

You, call the police.

Au bureau.

La lumie.

Save him.

Save the bastard.

[SIRENS APPROACHING]

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

$22 a barrel?

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Correct.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Why punish

the people of Europe?

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

You're all the same.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Will oil prices

ever go down?

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Will President Lockwood

ever resign?

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

HALE:
The price of gas went up

50 cents a gallon,

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

and not enough to go around.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Angry drivers locked attendants

in a toilet.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Meanwhile, other drivers

filled their tanks.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Blame the president.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Blame the oil companies.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Today, Wall Street went wild.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

More than three billion dollars

changed hands.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Do you know how much

a billion dollars is?

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

You'd have to spend

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

more than

two and a half million dollars

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

every day for one year.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Oil up $22 a barrel.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

President Lockwood

down 26 points.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Gold up.

Lockwood down.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Food prices up.

Lockwood down.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

The dollar down.

Lockwood way down.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

A sad day for America.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

We're a nation tired

of being without--

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

without jobs,

without pride,

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

without hope,

without leadership.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

We've had enough,

Mr. President.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Your own party's

against you.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

The whole world's

against you.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Resign, Mr. President.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Quit.

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

Quit?

No question.

Crude oil going higher.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Damn right.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

They've hit us below the belt.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

They've whomped us

behind the belt.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

They've belted us

with the belt.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

So...rally our friends.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Convert our enemies.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Damn the torpedoes.

Full speed ahead.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

You know what I want.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Do you?

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Ma'am?

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Do you?

Know what he wants?

We've just begun

to fight, right?

No, ma'am.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

We want a list of enemies.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

The CIA never meddles

in domestic affairs.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Of course.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Or politics.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Of course.

Now, let's cut the crap.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

We want a hit list.

Congressmen, senators, cabinet,

We've just begun

to fight, right?

big business, big labor,

big lobbies,

We've just begun

to fight, right?

yesterday's pals,

We've just begun

to fight, right?

the cowards

trying to give us the shaft.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Am I talking too fast

for those hidden microphones

We've just begun

to fight, right?

getting all this down on tape,

We've just begun

to fight, right?

because here it comes, baby,

loud and clear.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

We want pictures, witnesses,

hard evidence.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Kickbacks, bribery,

We've just begun

to fight, right?

usury, adultery, lechery,

bigotry, larceny.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Every dirty deal

they ever made,

We've just begun

to fight, right?

and if you can't or won't

get the facts, he will.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Can do.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

They want

a dirty alley fight?

We've just begun

to fight, right?

They've got it.

We've just begun

to fight, right?

[ HAIL TO THE CHIEF ]]

We've just begun

to fight, right?

Remember,

you've got to be seen.

If it doesn't

happen on television,

Remember,

you've got to be seen.

it means nothing.

Remember,

you've got to be seen.

Twenty-one shots,

and by golly,

they missed me every time.

Twenty-one shots,

The Alamo.

Davy Crockett fought here.

Jim Bowie fought here.

John Wayne

fought here...

Davy Crockett fought here.

Jim Bowie fought here.

and here's where I fight back.

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

"Quit," he says.

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

No!

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

But the heroes who defended

the Alamo,

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

the odds were against them too.

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

4,000 enemy troops

against 150 Texans.

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

Did they quit?

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

No!

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

Did a Texan ever quit?

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

Hell, no!

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

Hell, no!

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

[CHEERING]

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

We're going to win this election

because our side is right,

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

because we're not afraid

to fight,

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

because we will always

remember the Alamo.

Mr. Mallory says

I can't beat the odds.

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Charles McCarry

Charles McCarry (born 1930 in Massachusetts) is an American writer, primarily of spy fiction, and a former undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency who The Wall Street Journal described in 2013 as the dean of American spy writers; The New Republic magazine calls him "poet laureate of the CIA."; and Otto Penzler says he has produced some "poetic masterpieces." William Zinsser calls him a "political novelist:"Jonathan Yardley, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the Washington Post, calls him a "'serious' novelist" whose work may include "the best novel ever written about life in high-stakes Washington, DC." more…

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