The Wilby Conspiracy
by Ralph Nelson
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Actor: Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Saeed Jaffrey, Sidney PoitierDirector: Ralph Nelson
Brand: POITIER,SIDNEY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-20
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Wilby Conspiracy
Movie Review: Murder, stolen diamonds, terrorism and fugitives on the run
Summary: 5 Stars
When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) is freed from prison after being acquitted on a charge of terrorism, he soon gets into trouble with the police who intend that his freedom is going to be very short lived.
In fact they intend that also will be very short lived too. Persuaded by his girlfriend who is a lawyer, British engineer Keogh (Michael Caine) helps Twala flee from a ruthless government official (Nicol Williamson) who is hell bent on Twala's distruction, and very soon both men become fugitives from the law.
Handcuffed together the men who at first dislike each other intensely, form a strong bond of friendship based on mutual respect and a desire to survive their ordeal.
Persis Khambatta of Star Trek the Movie fame plays the love interest for Twala, and there are more twists in the tale of this movie than you can shake a stick at.
Quite brutal at times, I flinched at the scene were Keogh is beaten during a brutal interogation, along with the murder of the sympathetic Scottish farmer who helps the fugititives also gives the film a sense of stark realism, portraying a time in which South Africa could get away with murder.
A surprisingly good film which has dated reasonably well, its not too cliched, the photography is cxcellent, it doesn't have a happy ending, and we are treated to early performances from the likes of Rutger Hauer and Saeed Jaffrey.
A stonking good film for a pop-corn and soda night in.
Summary of The Wilby Conspiracy
OscarĀ(r) winners* Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine ignite the screen as two very differentmen suddenly bound togetherand running for their livesin this 'suspenseful [and] politically pertinent (Los Angeles Times) chase thriller set in South Africa's powder keg of racial strife. When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Poitier) is freed from prison, he quickly runs into trouble with the police. British engineer Keogh (Caine) helps Twala elude a sadistic government official (Nicol Williamson), but as both men, now fugitives, race 900 miles to cross the border to safety, they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize.Similar DVD Movies
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