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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
89 Views


It is?

Death to America!

Death to America!

Death to America!

Death to President Lockwood!

Death to Jews!

Death to President Lockwood!

Can you operate

a movie camera?

Death to President Lockwood!

Even this one.

Death to President Lockwood!

Okay, cover me.

Death to President Lockwood!

Hey, wait!

Death to President Lockwood!

Hey, wait!

Wait.

Death to President Lockwood!

Death to Jews!

Death to President Lockwood!

Where is he?

Death to President Lockwood!

Get the cow.

Death to President Lockwood!

[SHOUTING]

Death to President Lockwood!

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

Death to President Lockwood!

[GUNSHOTS]

Bloody fools.

Look at them.

[GUNSHOTS]

Lovely.

[GUNSHOTS]

I am not American.

[GUNSHOTS]

I am not President Lockwood,

[GUNSHOTS]

and I am not now

and never was--

[GUNSHOTS]

Easy, easy.

[GUNSHOTS]

And so help me, God,

I never intend to be a Jew!

[GUNSHOTS]

You're going to have

to pay $200 for the cow.

[GUNSHOTS]

Thank you.

Those bums,

Thank you.

they'll rob me

when they see my money.

Thank you.

If you don't pay,

Thank you.

first they'll bury you,

then they'll kill you,

Thank you.

and then they'll rob you.

Thank you.

They wouldn't take

my personal check,

Thank you.

would they?

Thank you.

Not even American Express.

Thank you.

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

Thank you.

About the sailboat,

my apologies.

Thank you.

I will pay for the damage.

Thank you.

Mr. Unger.

Thank you.

Have we met before?

Thank you.

Met?

Thank you.

You know my name.

Thank you.

On your business card.

Thank you.

Really?

Thank you.

[CLICKING]

[HONKING]

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Mm-hmm.

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Valuable?

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Oh, they're presents

for King Awad.

Those suitcases,

heavy.

You really

his friend?

Those suitcases,

heavy.

The man has got

many friends.

Those suitcases,

heavy.

He's a saint.

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Why would a saint

meet secretly

Those suitcases,

heavy.

with the world's

bloodiest terrorist?

Those suitcases,

heavy.

If it was such a secret,

how come you know of it?

Those suitcases,

heavy.

King Awad

met with Rafeeq?

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Twice.

Those suitcases,

heavy.

I don't believe it.

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Do you?

Those suitcases,

heavy.

I am not political.

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Nice camera

you've got here.

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Is it American?

Those suitcases,

heavy.

Mister...

Unger.

Mister...

Mr. Unger, what do you

export from here?

Mister...

Oil.

Mister...

God bless oil.

Mister...

My dear, God is oil.

Mister...

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

Thanks

for the ride.

Madam, my eternal

gratitude.

Thanks

for the ride.

What does he really

export-import?

Death.

What does he really

export-import?

Helmut Unger,

What does he really

export-import?

slickest arms dealer

in Europe.

What does he really

export-import?

Guns, planes, tanks,

poison gas,

What does he really

export-import?

you name it,

he's got it.

What does he really

export-import?

And we've got company.

What does he really

export-import?

[]

U.S. Embassy,

Homer Hubbard.

Nobody else.

U.S. Embassy,

Homer Hubbard.

It's faster by phone.

U.S. Embassy,

Homer Hubbard.

Our embassy phones

are bugged.

U.S. Embassy,

Homer Hubbard.

Cocktail later?

You've just

won my heart.

Cocktail later?

I'm calling for Marcus.

This is his cousin.

I'm calling for Marcus.

411-9000.

I'm calling for Marcus.

[INAUDIBLE]

[RINGING]

[INAUDIBLE]

This is your cousin, Sally.

[INAUDIBLE]

Yes, urgent.

[INAUDIBLE]

No, now. Same place.

[INAUDIBLE]

[HONKING]

[HONK]

Hey, I've got to see

a Mr. Homer Hubbard.

Homer Hubbard!

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

Give me her exact words.

Quote, "Humpty Dumpty's

ready to fall."

Give me her exact words.

Mike.

Give me her exact words.

Nothing else?

Give me her exact words.

She had to see

her cousin--

Give me her exact words.

business, urgent.

Give me her exact words.

Damn. Move it!

Give me her exact words.

[HONKING]

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

[HONKING]

[]

Two suitcases...

three feet long...

Two suitcases...

two-and-a-half feet

high...

Two suitcases...

nine to ten inches

thick.

Two suitcases...

Weight,

about 90 pounds.

Two suitcases...

Highly radioactive.

Two suitcases...

[]

Now.

[SCREAMING]

[TELEPHONE RINGING]

[SCREAMING]

[TELEPHONE RINGING]

[SIRENS APPROACHING]

This all happened

four hours ago.

Sally Blake, American reporter,

killed instantly.

This all happened

four hours ago.

The police here claim

that the man with her

This all happened

four hours ago.

was an Israeli secret agent.

This all happened

four hours ago.

The terrorist Jew

dies by his own bomb.

This all happened

four hours ago.

No question.

This all happened

four hours ago.

The woman is spying

for the CIA.

This all happened

four hours ago.

No question!

This all happened

four hours ago.

No question.

This all happened

four hours ago.

I tried to reach

Jack Philindros,

This all happened

four hours ago.

director of the CIA.

This all happened

four hours ago.

He wasn't in.

He wasn't out.

This all happened

four hours ago.

He was, I suppose,

somewhere in between.

This all happened

four hours ago.

Said Homer Hubbard,

embassy official--

This all happened

four hours ago.

Sally Blake

was murdered

This all happened

four hours ago.

to suppress

the truth.

This all happened

four hours ago.

The truth about what?

This all happened

four hours ago.

About whoever

killed her.

This all happened

four hours ago.

What's happened

to the American image?

This all happened

four hours ago.

How did America

become a dirty name?

This all happened

four hours ago.

Mr. President--

This all happened

four hours ago.

[SHOUTING ON TV]

This all happened

four hours ago.

We don't hate

the American people.

Except the Jews!

No question!

We don't hate

the American people.

And President

Lockwood!

We don't hate

the American people.

No question!

We don't hate

the American people.

[CHEERING]

We don't hate

the American people.

Jack Philindros

just phoned from his car.

We don't hate

the American people.

He suggests we alert

the Secretary of Defense,

We don't hate

the American people.

the Vice President,

General Wombat--

We don't hate

the American people.

Do it.

We don't hate

the American people.

Can do.

We don't hate

the American people.

The Post says that

We don't hate

the American people.

Mallory's coming out

with a statement

We don't hate

the American people.

about Sally Blake.

We don't hate

the American people.

Don't they know

Mallory's crazy?

We don't hate

the American people.

He was crazy

when he was a senator.

We don't hate

the American people.

He was even crazier

when he was president.

We don't hate

the American people.

[CHUCKLES WEAKLY]

We don't hate

the American people.

He's crazy enough

to be insane.

We don't hate

the American people.

Yes, sir.

No question.

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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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