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Guns in the Heather (1969)

Guns in the Heather (1969)

Action Adventure Family TV Movie
Release Date: 1969, July 23
Directors: Robert Butler
Countries: United States of America
Production: Walt Disney Productions
Cast: John Horton, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Eddie Byrne, Paul Farrell, Godfrey Quigley, Patrick Barr, Patrick Dawson, Ernst Walder, Niall Tóibín, J.G. Devlin, Glenn Corbett

Overview:

An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'

Keywords:

espionage spy intelligence agent defection ireland eastern block