Defence of the Realm

Movie

Action

Thriller

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.

Date: 05/09/1986

Rating: 6.5

Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay, Bill Paterson, David Calder, Frederick Treves, Robbie Coltrane, Steven Woodcock, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Annabel Leventon, 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, John Cannon

Gabriel Byrne