Wrong Is Right

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5.6(60)19821h 57m

ComedyDrama

Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.

Director

Richard Brooks

Joe Dante on WRONG IS RIGHT

Featurette

Cast

Sean Connery

Patrick Hale

George Grizzard

President Lockwood

Robert Conrad

General Wombat

Katharine Ross

Sally Blake

G.D. Spradlin

Philindros

John Saxon

Homer Hubbard

Henry Silva

Rafeeq

Leslie Nielsen

Mallory

Robert Webber

Harvey

Rosalind Cash

Mrs. Ford

Hardy Krüger

Helmut Unger

Dean Stockwell

Hacker

News and articles

Reviews

1 review

Sierbahnn

18d ago

6.0

Political satire and Bond adjacent. Sean was riding high on post-Bond era, and he puts it to use with his character of Hale in this movie. The story isn't more ludicrous than anything that Bond ever did, and is in fact more grounded because it involves multiple nations all scheming against one another for their own ends, rather than as a uniform specter of an enemy. It is fantastically cast and w...