Wrong Is Right Page #5

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


Death!

Okay, money talks,

right?

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Right.

Right.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

We'll freeze every dollar

they've got--

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Too late.

Too late, sir.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

12 billion,

700 million--

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Transferred.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Switzerland,

Liechtenstein.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Not so crazy.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Well, I'll go on television,

Death to the enemy!

Death!

and I'll

tell the world.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Can't you hear Mallory?

Death to the enemy!

Death!

"Dirty tricks.

Anything to get re-elected."

Death to the enemy!

Death!

And if Mallory

doesn't say it,

Death to the enemy!

Death!

the press will.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

But if the people

know the truth--

Death to the enemy!

Death!

We're all out of a job.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Attack now,

Mr. President.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Hit them first.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Good guys

never shoot first.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Why not?

Death to the enemy!

Death!

I will not go down in history

Death to the enemy!

Death!

as the president

who started World War III.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Which brings us

to your final option, sir.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

Tell it

like it is, baby.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

In private, please,

Mr. President.

Death to the enemy!

Death!

See he gets back

safely.

I didn't know you cared.

See he gets back

safely.

About you?

See he gets back

safely.

About this...

I care much.

See he gets back

safely.

[SPEAKING IN ARABIC]

[]

191. S-191. Home base.

Home base. S-191.

191. S-191. Home base.

Home base.

S-191. S-191.

191. S-191. Home base.

Receiving, over.

191. S-191. Home base.

Operation Suitcase,

result...negative.

191. S-191. Home base.

[BEEPING]

191. S-191. Home base.

[BEEPING]

[BUZZING]

And the Koran

quotes them.

[BUZZING]

King Awad quotes them.

[BUZZING]

Moses, Abraham,

Solomon, Jesus.

[BUZZING]

He must respect Jews.

[BUZZING]

Dead ones, yes.

[BUZZING]

[BEEPING]

[BUZZING]

Uh, sir?

[BUZZING]

Yes?

Negative, huh?

Casualties?

Negative, huh?

All right,

notify next of--

Negative, huh?

He said what?

Negative, huh?

Suicide.

Stand by.

Suicide.

Rafeeq?

Suicide.

No.

Suicide.

Not King Awad?

Suicide.

Not yet, sir.

Suicide.

Boy, that would

be something,

Suicide.

if he would die

before--

Suicide.

Is that your

instruction, sir?

Suicide.

Why should he

kill himself?

Suicide.

Oh, well,

religious fanatics

Suicide.

are unstable people.

They're unpredictable.

Suicide.

Must he die?

Suicide.

Sure would be convenient.

Suicide.

He certainly

won't abdicate.

Suicide.

Well, Jackie.

Yes, sir?

Well, Jackie.

Uncork your touchdown

play and score.

Well, Jackie.

Mr. President?

Well, Jackie.

Blast him

out of the ballpark.

Well, Jackie.

I'm not too familiar

with football, sir.

Well, Jackie.

Score, Jackie, score.

Well, Jackie.

What you're

really saying is--

Well, Jackie.

Right. Go ahead.

Well, Jackie.

Go where?

Well, Jackie.

Damn it, man, do it.

Well, Jackie.

Do what, sir?

Well, Jackie.

You want me

to spell it out?

Well, Jackie.

Yes, sir, I do.

Well, Jackie.

I have seen the CIA

take the rap

Well, Jackie.

for the last

seven presidents,

Well, Jackie.

but no more,

Well, Jackie.

unless you give me

a direct order.

Well, Jackie.

You want me to say...

Well, Jackie.

"kill him"?

Well, Jackie.

That is one of

your options, sir.

Well, Jackie.

Why, even if I thought

such a terrible thing,

Well, Jackie.

which I never did,

Well, Jackie.

do you realize

I could be impeached?

Well, Jackie.

Politics don't

mean anything to me

Well, Jackie.

unless they affect the CIA

and the United States.

Well, Jackie.

In that order, Jackie?

Well, Jackie.

They're interchangeable,

Mr. President.

Well, Jackie.

Those eyeglasses...

Well, Jackie.

they wouldn't be

a tape recorder,

Well, Jackie.

like the ones Sally Blake--

Well, Jackie.

That king,

the one who wanted to waste

Thomas Becket...

That king,

King Henry II.

That king,

Right.

That king,

He didn't say,

"Pop him, burn him."

That king,

He said what?

That king,

"Who will rid me

of this man?"

That king,

Get the drift, Jackie?

No, sir.

Get the drift, Jackie?

All I've heard is

"rid me of,"

Get the drift, Jackie?

"pop him, burn him,"

and "score a touchdown,"

Get the drift, Jackie?

just as over the years

in this office, I've heard

Get the drift, Jackie?

"Terminate

with extreme prejudice."

Get the drift, Jackie?

I've heard "croak him,"

and "chill him,"

Get the drift, Jackie?

and "pop him," "burn him,"

"fire him,"

Get the drift, Jackie?

"grease him."

Get the drift, Jackie?

And you still

don't understand?

Get the drift, Jackie?

No, sir.

Get the drift, Jackie?

Well, how's this?

K-I-double-L him,

by God.

Well, how's this?

By God, sir?

Well, how's this?

By executive action.

Well, how's this?

Immediately.

Well, how's this?

Thank you, sir.

Well, how's this?

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

Well, how's this?

Was this session taped?

Well, how's this?

Sir?

Well, how's this?

What was said here,

was it taped as usual?

Well, how's this?

Of course.

Well, how's this?

Burn it.

Well, how's this?

Your own tape?

Well, how's this?

Burn it.

Well, how's this?

Watergate, remember?

Well, how's this?

You think I want a black

Ford in my future?

Well, how's this?

Well, how's this?

K-I-double-L him,

by God.

Well, how's this?

By God, sir?

Well, how's this?

By executive action.

Well, how's this?

[BEEPING]

Well, how's this?

[BEEPING]

Well, how's this?

[]

Well, how's this?

[RADIO ANNOUNCER SPEAKING

IN ARABIC]

[RADIO BROADCASTING IN ARABIC]

Why's tomorrow so

bloody important to Awad?

[RADIO BROADCASTING IN ARABIC]

Beats me.

[RADIO BROADCASTING IN ARABIC]

Kings and priests,

they talk in riddles.

[RADIO BROADCASTING IN ARABIC]

Why is an American

fighting here,

[RADIO BROADCASTING IN ARABIC]

in that uniform?

[RADIO BROADCASTING IN ARABIC]

Why'd Americans fight

over there, in Vietnam?

[RADIO BROADCASTING IN ARABIC]

Ha. Beats me.

[RADIO BROADCASTING IN ARABIC]

What did he say?

King Awad...

What did he say?

he's dead.

What did he say?

What are you doing?

Going to Awad's camp.

What are you doing?

You might not

be welcome.

What are you doing?

Television

not welcome? Ha.

What are you doing?

Where?

What are you doing?

Beats me.

What are you doing?

[ALARM WAILING]

What are you doing?

Take the wheel.

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

Take the wheel.

[HORNS HONKING]

[HONKING]

I don't understand.

He had such hopes

for tomorrow.

I don't understand.

How did it happen?

I don't understand.

Suicide.

I don't understand.

Frothing at the mouth.

I don't understand.

Traces of poison.

I don't understand.

That doesn't

prove suicide.

I don't understand.

This does.

I don't understand.

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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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