Power Play
Power Play is a 1978 British-Canadian political thriller film starring Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings, based on the 1968 non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak. The film was also known as Coup d'Etat. It was released on DVD in 2005 by New Star Video under the title A State of Shock.
Plot
A small group of military officers frustrated by the corruption and brutality of a fictional contemporary European government decide that they must overthrow the current administration. But the coup's leader worries that there is a spy in their group.
More details
author | Martyn Burke |
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contentLocation | Europe |
director | Martyn Burke |
editor | John Victor-Smith |
genre | political thriller |
keywords | army officer kill military officer operational security operations security |
musicBy | Ken Thorne |
producer | Bob Cooper Ronald I. Cohen |
publisher | Rank Film Distributors |
theme | political thriller |