Sleeping Dogs
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5.6Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
Released: 1977-10-06107 minDir: Roger DonaldsonAction, Thriller, Drama
Cast
- Sam Neill as Smith
- Warren Oates as Col. Willoughby
- Ian Mune as Bullen
- Ian Watkin as Dudley
- William Johnson as Cousins
- Davina Whitehouse as Elsie
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Key dates
- Published
- 28 February 1982
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- New Zealand
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Roger Donaldson
- Screenwriter
- Ian Mune
- Cinematographer
- Michael Seresin
- Narrative location
- New Zealand
- Filming location
- New Zealand
- Duration
- +100
- FilmAffinity ID
- 966443
- Distribution format
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1970s action thriller films1970s New Zealand films1970s political thriller films1970s vigilante films1977 directorial debut films1977 English-language films1977 filmsCoromandel PeninsulaDystopian filmsEnglish-language action thriller filmsFilms based on New Zealand novelsFilms directed by Roger Donaldson