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Deadline (1988 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Deadline' is a 1988 British drama television film, directed by Richard Stroud and based on a novel and adapted for the screen by Tom Stacey, which aired on BBC. It stars John Hurt.
Plot
An alcoholic Fleet Street journalist is caught up in a coup on an island in the Persian Gulf, where the Emir's son and an enforcer attempt to depose his father.
Cast
*John Hurt as Granville Jones
*Imogen Stubbs as Lady Romy Burton
*Robert McBain as Sandy McCulloch
*Greg Hicks as Lou Rivers
*Bargach Abdelrahim as Abdullah
*Julian Curry as Stuart-Smith
*David Conville as Sir Geoffrey Burton
*Roshan Seth as The Emir of Hawa
References
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