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Ralph NelsonScreenplay:
Rod AmateauCinematography:
John CoquillonComposer:
Stanley MyersCast:
Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Saeed Jaffrey, Persis Khambatta, Rutger Hauer, Patrick Allen, Joe De Graft, Helmut Dantine (more)VOD (2)
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When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Poitier) is freed from prison, he quickly runs into trouble with the police. British engineer Keogh (Caine) helps Twala elude a sadistic government official (Williamson), but as both men, now fugitives, race 900 miles to cross the border to safety, they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize. (official distributor synopsis)
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As a film fighting against apartheid it is somewhat naive. But in fact it's nothing more than a stage set (however, forcibly incorporated wherever possible) for a Hitchcock-like thriller that adheres to all the rules and clichés of the genre. So, we have a man from the crowd who has no idea what is going on and who is played by everyone. And on this level it still works much better, mainly due to the fact that it can be exciting (unfortunately rather in the first half). The dynamics of "I do not trust you, but I need you" of the Caine/Poitier duo has zest and the main villain has proper charisma and respect, without resorting to the obvious "villainous" actions. As a result, it is a decent but rightly forgotten genre movie which is not about the usual motivation of innocence/revenge/money but about ideals.
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