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Guns in the Heather (1969)
Directed by Robert Butler
Overview
An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on ‘Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color’ TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, ‘The Secret of Boyne Castle.’
Length 144 minutes
Actors
Glenn Corbett | Alfred Burke | Kurt Russell | Patrick Barr | Hugh McDermott | Patrick Westwood | Eddie Byrne | Godfrey Quigley | Kevin Stoney | Shay Gorman | Niall Toibin | Ernst Walder | Robert Bernal | Vincent Dowling | John Horton | J.G. Devlin | Nicola Davies | Gerry Alexander | Eamon Morrissey | Declan Mulholland | Mary Larkin | Paul Farrell | Patrick Dawson | Pippa Steel