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, is about the theft of two suitcase nukes.
Original film poster
Richard Brooks was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer. Nominated for eight Academy Awards in his career, he was best known for Blackboard Jungle (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood (1967) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).
Brooks in 1986
Richard Brooks on set at MGM studios, 1950's
Brooks and Peter O'Toole on Lord Jim (1965) set in Cambodia
Writer Truman Capote and Brooks in 1968