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Wrong Is Right

Year:

1982

Duration:

117 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Thriller

IMDB rate:

5.8

Director:

Richard Brooks

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1982-04-16

Filming Locations: Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $1,412,646 (USA) (16 May 1982)

Gross: $3,583,513 (USA) (31 May 1982)

Cast

Actor

Character

Dean Stockwell

Sean Connery

Patrick Hale

George Grizzard

President Lockwood

Robert Conrad

Gen. Wombat

Katharine Ross

Sally Blake

G.D. Spradlin

Philindros

John Saxon

Homer Hubbard

Henry Silva

Rafeeq

Leslie Nielsen

Mallory

Robert Webber

Harvey

Rosalind Cash

Mrs. Ford

Hardy Krüger

Helmut Unger (as Hardy Kruger)

Ron Moody

King Awad

Cherie Michan

Erika

Tony March

Abu

Marianne Marks

Suzy

Jeffrey Wheat

Mike

Joseph Whipp

John Brown

Tom McFadden

Billy Bob Harper

Ivy Bethune

Housewife

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Young Girl

Kiva Lawrence

CIA Receptionist

Barry Cahill

Husband

Angelo Bertolini

Cardinal

Keith McConnell

Sir Robert Smythe

Alexander Zale

Prof. Faheem

Donald Bishop

Congressman

Dianne L. Wilson

Woman with Dog (as Diane Lynn Wilson)

George Skaff

Col. Qadeer

Denis Hoppe

Hagreb Officer

Milt Jamin

Hagreb Army Doctor

Edward L. Moskowitz

W.T.N. Technician

Myron Natwick

Adm. Leary

Paul Lambert

Defense Secretary

Suzanne Reynolds

TV Woman Reporter

David Frankham

British Reporter

Ed Pennybacker

U.S. Reporter

Ken Bibeau

Marcus

Art Evans

Warehouse Guard

Mio Polo

Warehouse Guard

Charles Hutchins

Cabbie

Robert Alan Browne

Motorist

Mickey Jones

Gunman

Dawna O'Brien

President's Secretary

Pamela V. Kobbe

Mr. Hale's Secretary

Clare Grenville

Mallory Campaigner (as Claire Grenville)

Merrill M. Mazuer

W.T.N. News Staff

Ray Conners

W.T.N. News Staff

Ken Gale

W.T.N. News Staff

Melinda Casey

W.T.N. News Staff (as Melinda Ann Casey)

Kerry Sullivan

W.T.N. News Staff

Don F. Dunwell

W.T.N. News Staff (as Don Dunwell)

Melanie Stensland

W.T.N. News Staff (as Melanie Steensland)

Don Worsham

W.T.N. News Staff

Julie Condra

(uncredited)

Ken Davis

Ed (uncredited)

Toby Hughes

TV Cameraman (uncredited)

Angela Pabisch

Girl at Airport Ticket Counter (uncredited)

George Palmer

W.T.N. News Staff (uncredited)

Frank Patton

Riot Cop (uncredited)

Jeff Schwartz

Reporter (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

One of this movie's main posters was designed in painted artwork featuring Sean Connery standing in a James Bond-like pose with a television camera instead of a gun and with two girls in bikinis at his feet. In the background inside a circle (evoking a gun barrel) were two scenes of action, while in the air above was a spy satellite. All these elements were typical of the James Bond movie franchise which Connery had been a big part of. This was not the original poster for this movie. The Bond-type poster was used in various non-USA markets, replacing the original poster after the film was a commercial failure in North America. This was the second 'Sean Connery non-Bond film to have a Bond-like poster in just a few years, as the main movie poster for Cuba (1979) was also designed like a Bond movie poster.

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Final theatrically released Hollywood movie for Hardy Krüger.

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This movie's original American movie poster showed Sean Connery in the foreground with an atomic / nuclear bomb exploding into a mushroom cloud in the background. A number of Hollywood movie's made during the early 1980s covered the subject of nuclear / atomic war and the bomb. Other films made during the 1980s which depicted mushroom clouds featured on their posters included The Day After (1983) (theatrical release); One Night Stand (1984); and The Atomic Cafe (1982).

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Goofs

(at around 1 min) The design of the suitcase bombs is shown to President Lockwood. The bombs are said to contain plutonium, but the design shown fits the uranium bomb (the cannon design), not plutonium bomb (the fission sphere design) - a very distinctive difference President's aides should know.

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The lighting changes between the live and the obvious studio shots of Hale parachuting from the plane in the opening sequence. For example, there are 3 light sources in the studio shot reflected on his helmet (including one from in front of him as he looks out from the plane), rather than just the sunlight from above.

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