The Wilby Conspiracy

1975

From DVD blurb:

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In the fight for freedom, you have to break all the rules.

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Oscar winners Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine ignite the screen as two very different men suddenly bound together -- and running for their lives -- in this "suspenseful [and] politically pertinent" (Los Angeles Times) chase thriller set in South Africa's powder keg of racial strife.

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When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Poitier) is freed from prison, he quickly runs into trouble with the police. British engineer Keogh (Caine) helps Twala elude a sadistic government official (Nicol Williamson), but as both men, now fugitives, race 900 miles to cross the border to safety, they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize.

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Director: Ralph Nelson

Screenplay Writers: Rod Amateau, Harold Nebenzal

Running Time: 1 hour 46 minutes