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Gabriel Byrne | Nicholas Mullen | |
Greta Scacchi | Nina Beckman | |
Denholm Elliott | Vernon Bayliss | |
Ian Bannen | Dennis Markham | |
Fulton Mackay | Victor Kingsbrook | |
Bill Paterson | Jack Macleod | |
David Calder | Harry Champion | |
Frederick Treves | Arnold Reece | |
Robbie Coltrane | Leo McAskey | |
Annabel Leventon | Trudy Markham | |
Graham Fletcher-Cook | Micky Parker | |
Steven Woodcock | Steven Dyce | |
Alexei Jawdokimov | Dietrich Kleist | |
Daniel Webb | Danny Royce | |
Prentis Hancock | Frank Longman |
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Producer | Lynda Myles
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Writer | Martin Stellman
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Cinematography | Roger Deakins
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Musician | Richard Harvey
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"Taut, extremely entertaining" (Leonard Maltin) and laden with suspense, this fast-moving chiller stars Gabriel Byrne as a Cold War reporter who discovers that free speech comes at a deadly price. Co-starring Greta Scacchi and Denholm Elliott, Defense of the Realm is "electrifying, terrifying" and will leave you "limp from controlled tension" (Los Angeles Times)! When a tawdry sex scandal links a high-ranking British politician to a Russian KGB agent, ambitious newsman Nick Mullen (Byrne) swiftly gets the story on Page One. But when his scoop-of-the-decade begins to unravel the cover-up-of-the-century – involving military secrets, nuclear weapons and government murders – Mullen and the politician's beautiful secretary (Scacchi) finds themselves ensnared in a web of deadly intrigueÂ...where every move could be their last! |
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