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- 1975
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 45 m
- 1975
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police.
Directed By: Ralph Nelson
Written By: Rod Amateau, Harold Nebenzal, Peter Driscoll
- 1975
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 45 m
- 1975
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 45 m
The Wilby Conspiracy
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Summary Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police.
Directed By: Ralph Nelson
Written By: Rod Amateau, Harold Nebenzal, Peter Driscoll
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Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
57
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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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 Wilby Conspiracy [from Peter Driscoll’s novel] is a good action melodrama about apartheid in South Africa. It was made in Kenya. The stars Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine are relentlessly stalked by Nicol Williamson, superb as a coldly dedicated and brutal policeman out after racial agitators.
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.
The direction is routine action filmmaking with no originality. The film, therefore, is both exciting and flat all at once.
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.
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