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Enjoyable, mostly forgotten thriller from 70's
Title: "The Wilby Conspiracy"
Released: 1975
Rated: PG
Running Time:1 hour and 41 minutes
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Starring: Sidney Poitier-as Shack Twala
Michael Caine-as Jim Keogh
Nicol Williamson-as Major Horn
Prunella Gee-as Rina van Niekirk
Rutger Hauer-as Blane
Rijk de Gooyer- as van Heerden
This is a good little movie about Poitier and Caine fleeing South African police while being tailed by South African State Security Bureau agents (Williamson and Gooyer). The film begins with Poitier being released from prison (having just served 10 years for political activism against the apartheid government) through the efforts of his lawyer (Gee)after a hearing in the South African Supreme Court in Capetown. Immediately following his release, Poitier, Gee and Caine-who plays Gee's boyfriend, a British mining engineer-decide to go to her office to celebrate. En route, they are stopped at a police checkpoint and Poitier is assaulted by the two officers. Gee comes to his aid and is in turn assaulted, which leads Caine to become involved. The policemen are seriously injured and Poitier and Caine decide to head for a safehaven in Johannesberg, 900 miles away.
Little do the duo know that Poitier's release and subsequent ease in evading the police are the result of the Security Bureau's intervention. It seems that the Bureau want to follow Poitier in the hopes that he will lead them to Wilby, the leader of the anti-apartheid forces. What follows is an entertaining chase across South Africa and a related quest for missing diamonds which all lead to a violent finale (despite its PG rating).
Poitier and Caine are great in the primary roles. They have to rely on each other, while not exactly always getting along. The movie is further helped by a strong supporting cast, including Gee and Williamson (in a standout performance as the lead Bureau agent following the fugitives). Rutger Hauer has a small role as Gee's estranged bush pilot husband.
The movie, which is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Driscoll, was filmed in Kenya and at Pinewood Studios in England. I recommend this film to fans of Poitier and Caine, as well as anyone looking for a good 1970's thriller/action movie.
Disgusting and Dated
Just finished watching this 1974 film about the oppression in South Africa starring Micheal Caine and Sidney Poitier. It gave a great retrospective of how South Africa was perceived by the media during apartheid. It had a blonde lady lawyer devoted to helping the rebel leader Poitier keep from going back to prison. Micheal Caine played her boyfriend who was not political until he jumped in and assaulted some policemen manhandling Poitier. Then they were on the run together, ala The Defiant Ones.
Next came a sickening scene that could only come out of a Marxist idolatry worshipping Hollywood. Poitier had been handcuffed before escaping and had lost the use of his fingers. When they pulled over to urinate, he couldn't get his zipper undone because his hands were numb. So he walks back up to Micheal Caine sitting in the car and presses his crotch right in Caine's face through the open window, telling Caine to pull down his zipper. Caine complies, with a smirk on his face, letting the audience know what the score is. Poitier doesn't move and so Caine demurely asks in a sweet as sugar voice, "What now?" To which Poitier snarls "What now!?! YOU KNOW, What Now!" The theatrical/literary allusion of rape and the black man dominant was more than I could stomach. And this a full three decades before Terrell Owens and Nicolete Sheriden.
Meanwhile the New York Times has just run a story on the consequences of Black dominance. An article about Zimbabwe revealed that most Black Zimbabweans now regret that Whites no longer run the country. No wonder, they are now starving to death after destroying a propsperous White-built economy.
After Black rule has messed up South Africa, Black South Africans will look back with tears in their eyes to the golden days of Apartheid, which small-minded Marxist trash like this helped to overthrow.
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