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Guns in the Heather (1969)

Name: Guns in the Heather
Director: Robert Butler
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, TV Movie
Released: 1969-07-23
Duration: 144 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Dawson, Patrick Barr

144 min · United States of America · Dir. Robert Butler

Action Adventure Family TV Movie 1969 movies

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.'