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The Monday Film: The Wilby Conspiracy

on BBC One London

Starring Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine

Released from prison after a ten-year sentence, black leader Shack Twala soon finds himself victim of the vicious South African police. He is helped to escape by an English mining engineer and the two wanted men head for Johannesburg. They are pursued by Major Horn of the State Security bureau, who mysteriously allows them to stay free. But the secret police have more important matters to attend to, including half-a-million pounds' worth of diamonds and 'Wilby' - head of the revolutionary Black Congress ...

Films: p 23 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Rod Amateau
Screenplay:
Harold Nebenzal
Based on the novel by:
Peter Driscoll
Producer:
Martin Baum
Director:
Ralph Nelson
Shack Twala:
Sidney Poitier
Keogh:
Michael Caine
Horn:
Nicol Williamson
Rina:
Prunella Gee
Persis Ray:
Persis Khambatta
Mukerjee:
Saeed Jaffrey
Van Heerden:
Ryk de Gooyer
Blane Niekirk:
Rutger Hauer
Wilby:
Joseph de Graf
Judge:
Brian Epsom
Headman in Masai village:
Abdullah Sunado

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