Wrong Is Right

Wrong Is Right
Original film poster
Directed byRichard Brooks
Written byRichard Brooks
Based onThe Better Angels
by Charles McCarry
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyFred J. Koenekamp
Edited byGeorge Grenville
Music byArtie Kane
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 16, 1982 (1982-04-16)
Running time
117 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10 million[2]
Box office$3.5 million[3]

Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man with the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 American political satire comedy thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Richard Brooks and starring Sean Connery as TV news reporter Patrick Hale. The film, based on Charles McCarry's novel The Better Angels (1979), is about the theft of two suitcase nukes.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b Canby, Vincent (April 16, 1982). "'Wrong is Right,' Globe-Hopping Thriller". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Wrong is Right (1982)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  3. ^ "Wrong Is Right". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 15, 2007.
  4. ^ "Wrong Is Right". Variety. January 1, 1982. Retrieved January 4, 2024.

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