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The Package

on BBC One London

Political thriller from the director of The
Fugitive starring
Gene Hackman
Tommy Lee Jones
Joanna Cassidy Berlin 1989: life-long army man Johnny Gallagher is head of an American security team assigned to escort a disgraced soldier, a "package", back to
America. However, the man is not who he is supposed to be, and Gallagher arrives in Washington, DC, to discover he has been used as part of a mysterious manoeuvre plotted between Russian and American military dissidents.
Director Andrew Davis (1989)
FILM REVIEWS pages 51-60

Contributors

Unknown:
Gene Hackman
Unknown:
Tommy Lee Jones
Unknown:
Joanna Cassidy
Unknown:
Johnny Gallagher
Director:
Andrew Davis
Sergeantjohnny Gallagher:
Gene Hackman
Thomas Boyette:
Tommy Lee Jones
Lt Col Eileen Gallagher:
Joanna Cassidy
Colonel Glen Whitacre:
John Heard
Walter Henke:
Kevin Crowley
Colonel Gregor Malekov:
Anatoly Davydov
General Thomas Hopkins:
Chelcie Ross
General Robert Carlson:
Joe Greco
Milan Mich:
Dennis Franz
RuthButler:
Pam Grier

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