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Actors: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Persis Khambatta, Rutger Hauer
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Wilby Conspiracy |
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The brutally oppressive Apartheid regime in South Africa is the setting for this film of social consciousness. No sooner is Shack Twala (Poitier) miraculously released from his ten-year jail term before he is roughed up and threatened with returning to prison, as he is passing through a zone off limits to blacks lacking official papers. He is guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time as a passenger in his lawyer's car in Cape Town. Told to get out of the vehicle he struggles with a white policeman. Jim Keogh (Caine), a British engineer and a friend of Twala's lawyer van Niekirk (Gee), comes to his aid and the two become immediate fugitives from the law. Twala implores Keogh to drive him to Johannesburg where he may find a sympathetic ally.
The two unlikely companions make the 900-mile trip, nearly apprehended by law enforcement. Twala has handcuffs so tight around his wrists nearly stopping all blood circulation to his hands they must break into a machine shop and remove the manacles before his hands become crippled. The film follows the plight of the pair on the lam and government agent Major Horn (Williamson) on their trail. Each man having to coach the other through the two different worlds they encounter in South Africa and it's segregated society. The plot has some surprises for the viewer making the story a bit more intriguing than just a cops and fugitives flick.
--David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals portrayed sympathetically on the run
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- fight for survival
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
Africa
Yes
Part of Africa:
- White Enclave
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Is this movie based on a
- book
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