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Defence of the Realm (1986)
Directed by David Drury
Overview
A reporter named Mullen ‘stumbles’ onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP’s assistant, to find out the truth.
Rated PG | Length 96 minutes
Actors
Gabriel Byrne | Greta Scacchi | Denholm Elliott | Ian Bannen | Fulton Mackay | Bill Paterson | David Calder | Frederick Treves | Robbie Coltrane | Steven Woodcock | Graham Fletcher-Cook | Annabel Leventon | Alexei Jawdokimov | Danny Webb | Prentis Hancock | Michael Johnson | Mark Tandy | Nicholas Coppin | Veronica Duffy | David Hatton | Laurance Rudic | Philip Whitchurch | Beverly Anderson | David Lyon | Pip Miller | David Halliwell | John Rees | Ravinder Singh Reyett | Noel Johnson | Hubert Rees | Oliver Ford Davies | George Ellis Jones | James Fleet | Vass Anderson | Lyndon Brook | William Job | Al Matthews | Daniel Foley | Barbara Coles | John Cannon