The Whistle blower
Frank Jones is an ordinary lower-middle-class Englishman who saw action in Korea, votes the Tory line, and is unquestioningly patriotic. Then his son, a linguist working for British Intelligence, dies in an apparently accidental fall from the roof of his flat. The combination of the odd circumstance...
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MGM Home Entertainment,
2002
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500 | |a Based on the novel by John Hale | ||
500 | |a Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987 | ||
508 | |a Director, Simon Langton ; producer, Geoff Reeve ; screenplay, Julian Bond ; music, John Scott ; director of photography, Fred Tammes | ||
511 | 1 | |a Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Felicity Dean, John Gielgud, Kenneth Colley, Gordon Jackson, David Langton, Barry Foster | |
520 | |a Frank Jones is an ordinary lower-middle-class Englishman who saw action in Korea, votes the Tory line, and is unquestioningly patriotic. Then his son, a linguist working for British Intelligence, dies in an apparently accidental fall from the roof of his flat. The combination of the odd circumstances of the accident and the knowledge of his son's discontent with his job leads Frank to question the story he is being told. First hesitantly, and finally obsessively, he tries to find out enough to resolve the question of whether the death was accident, suicide, or murder | ||
521 | 8 | |a MPAA rating: PG | |
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546 | |a In English, with option subtitles in English, French and Spanish | ||
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