DEFENSE OF THE REALM

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• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: When a tawdry sex scandal links a high-ranking British politician to a Russian KGB agent, ambitious newsman Nick Mullen (Byrne) swiftly gets the story on Page One. But when his scoop-of-the-decade begins to unravel the cover-up-of-the-century-involving military secrets, nuclear weapons, and government murders-Mullen and the politician's beautiful secretary (Scacchi) find themselves ensnared in a web of dead intrigue...where every move could be their last!
• Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay, Bill Paterson, David Calder, Frederick Treves, Robbie Coltrane, Annabel Leventon, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Steven Woodcock, 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, Derek Lyons, David Drury
• Director: David Drury
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: MGM / UA, MGM Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie