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Hennesy (1975)
FANTASTIC movie that I didn't know about until recently that i'm glad I got to watch. This movie stars Rod Steiger and Lee Remick is also in the cast as well. The movie centers of Steiger as an Irishman who has IRA ties who becomes unhinged after his wife and young child are killed in the midst of violence. He intends to blow up the opening of parliament killing the queen and the rest of the MPs in the building.
Scotland Yard gets involved in the case with a rather obsessive investigator named Hollis in charge. Hollis had gone undercover a couple years earlier and barely escaped with his life after the IRA ferreted him and his confederates out. On the other side of things Steiger's friend and IRA bigwig sees the political implications of what Steiger intends to do and actively tries to stop Steiger from achieving his goals.
Things get messy as Hollis doesn't trust the IRA folks and Steiger proves himself elusive. The movie has the tone and feel of The Day of the Jackal but on a smaller budget as this was produced by American International Pictures. Despite that, this is a well crafted and tense film that holds your interest throughout even if the politics of the story is a little wobbly as about a decade later the IRA very nearly assassinated Margaret Thatcher.
Hennesy (1975)
FANTASTIC movie that I didn't know about until recently that i'm glad I got to watch. This movie stars Rod Steiger and Lee Remick is also in the cast as well. The movie centers of Steiger as an Irishman who has IRA ties who becomes unhinged after his wife and young child are killed in the midst of violence. He intends to blow up the opening of parliament killing the queen and the rest of the MPs in the building.
Scotland Yard gets involved in the case with a rather obsessive investigator named Hollis in charge. Hollis had gone undercover a couple years earlier and barely escaped with his life after the IRA ferreted him and his confederates out. On the other side of things Steiger's friend and IRA bigwig sees the political implications of what Steiger intends to do and actively tries to stop Steiger from achieving his goals.
Things get messy as Hollis doesn't trust the IRA folks and Steiger proves himself elusive. The movie has the tone and feel of The Day of the Jackal but on a smaller budget as this was produced by American International Pictures. Despite that, this is a well crafted and tense film that holds your interest throughout even if the politics of the story is a little wobbly as about a decade later the IRA very nearly assassinated Margaret Thatcher.
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