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After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.
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Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen -
Nina Beckman -
Vernon Bayliss -
Dennis Markham -
Victor Kingsbrook -
Jack Macleod -
Harry Champion -
Arnold Reece -
Leo McAskey -
Trudy Markham -
Micky Parker -
Steven Dyce
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Dietrich Kleist
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Frank Longman
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The name of the airbase is never mentioned. However at one point Nick views a press clipping which states that the (presumed) hit-and-run driving incident occurred in the village of Brandon. That's in Suffolk, adjacent to the US airbase at RAF Lakenheath. (However, the building Nick is seen parked outside when he asks, and is denied, permission to visit the base commander, is not at Lakenheath, it looks more like RAF Uxbridge which would have been easier to get permission to film at, and is also very close to the Shepperton studio where the film was made.)
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Vernon Bayliss:
Vodka and Coca-Cola. Detente in a glass!
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Markham's wife's name is spelled "Trudy Markham" when a typist takes dictation from Nick over the phone and in the rolling credits. In a newspaper clipping that Mullen looks at, her name is spelled "Trudi" in the headline.
Crazy Credits
The research done for this film is shown by the acknowledgment at the end of the credits: "The Producers wish to thank the STAFF and MANAGEMENT of THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS FOR THEIR HELP."
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Passion Chorale(uncredited)
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
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Release Date:
21 November 1986Language
English
Country of Origin
UKFilming Locations
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, England, UKBox Office
Gross:
$750,000 (USA)
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