Deadline is a 1988 British drama television film, directed by Richard Stroud and based on a novel and adapted for the screen by Tom Stacey, which aired on BBC. It stars John Hurt.
Plot An alcoholic Fleet Street journalist is caught up in a coup on an island in the Persian Gulf, where the Emir's son and an enforcer attempt to depose his father.
Cast John Hurt as Granville Jones Imogen Stubbs as Lady Romy Burton Robert McBain as Sandy McCulloch Greg Hicks as Lou Rivers Bargach Abdelrahim as Abdullah Julian Curry as Stuart-Smith David Conville as Sir Geoffrey Burton Roshan Seth as The Emir of Hawa
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