---
title: 'Wrong Is Right (1982)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Brooks'
released: '1982-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 118
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/wrong-is-right-1982'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084920/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Wrong Is Right (1982)

1982 · R · 118 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man with the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 American political satire comedy thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Richard Brooks and starring Sean Connery as TV news reporter Patrick Hale. The film, based on Charles McCarry's novel The Better Angels (1979), is about the theft of two suitcase nukes.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Richard Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-brooks)
- **Screenplay:** [Richard Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-brooks)
- **Producer:** [Richard Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-brooks), [George Grenville](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-grenville)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Artie Kane](https://cinepixo.com/people/artie-kane)
- **Editor:** [George Grenville](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-grenville)
- **Director of Photography:** [Fred Koenekamp](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-koenekamp)

## Cast

- [David Frankham](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-frankham)
- [Rosalind Cash](https://cinepixo.com/people/rosalind-cash)
- [Jennifer Jason Leigh](https://cinepixo.com/people/jennifer-jason-leigh)
- [Henry Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-silva)
- [Dean Stockwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/dean-stockwell)
- [Hardy Krüger](https://cinepixo.com/people/hardy-kruger)
- [Leslie Nielsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/leslie-nielsen)
- [G. D. Spradlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/g-d-spradlin)
- [George Grizzard](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-grizzard)
- [Sean Connery](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-connery) as Patrick Hale
- [Ron Moody](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-moody)
- [Robert Conrad](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-conrad)
- [Mickey Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/mickey-jones)
- [Art Evans](https://cinepixo.com/people/art-evans)
- [John Saxon](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-saxon)

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