Assets there are: Caine is served with some nice deadpan lines by Rod Amateau, and John Coquillon's photography is characteristically cool. But this is an unpleasant and invidious film, like Soldier Blue creaming the surface off profound racial issues to ease the killing along.
The Wilby Conspiracy
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United Kingdom · 1975
Rated PG · 1h 45m
Director Ralph Nelson
Starring Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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Having spent ten years in prison for anti-Apartheid activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown, hoping to recover a stash of diamonds meant to finance revolutionary activities.
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The New Yorker by Pauline Kael
This Anglo-American production doesn't go in for romance or comedy; it sticks to suspense, and it's really good at what it does (except for a rather tacky escape by air).
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
The best thing about the movie, flimed mostly in Kenya, is its performances, funny and hip and self-assured in the manner of television personalities working in front of loving audiences. Mr. Caine and Mr. Poitier are never unaware that their material may not be the greatest, but that doesn't spoil their good spirits, and when a good line comes along they get maximum results without stomping on it or us.
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