April 16 1982 

WRONG IS RIGHT  (a.k.a The Man With The Deadly Lens) opens in New York.Written and directed by Richard Brooks, from the novel The Better Angels by Charles McGarry. Scattershot, eerily prophetic TV news satire-cum-Strangelove political thriller with Sean Connery as globe-trotting, ratings chasing reporter whose cosy relationship with the world's despots and radicals comes in handy when he gets wind of a terrorist nuclear threat involving the US president. Co-starring Geoege Grizzard, Robert Conrad and Katherine Ross

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