The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
Direction
Peckinpah's final film, barely held together by sheer chaos.
Acting
Rutger Hauer's intensity versus everyone else's confusion.
Editing
Five editors tried to save this; none fully succeeded.
Director
Sam Peckinpah
Rutger Hauer
John Tanner
John Hurt
Lawrence Fassett
Craig T. Nelson
Bernard Osterman
Dennis Hopper
Richard Tremayne
Chris Sarandon
Joseph Cardone
Meg Foster
Ali Tanner
Helen Shaver
Virginia Tremayne
Cassie Yates
Betty Cardone
Sandy McPeak
Walter Stennings
Burt Lancaster
Maxwell Danforth
Cheryl Carter
Marcia Heller
Anne Haney
Honeymoon Bride
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peckinpah was reportedly so drunk during filming that Hauer often directed his own scenes. The studio hated the rough cut so much they tested it without Peckinpah's knowledge.
The film butchered Robert Ludlum's novel, stripping its Watergate-era paranoia for generic action—yet accidentally captured Reagan-era media distrust years early.
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