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Sleeping Dogs (1978)
Directed by Roger Donaldson
“What happens when you're hunted...and there's no place to run!”
Action, Drama, Thriller · 1h 47m
Recluse 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.
Cast
Sam Neill
Ian Mune
Warren Oates
Nevan Rowe
Donna Akersten
Ian Watkin
William Johnson
Crew
- Director
- Roger Donaldson
- Screenplay
- Ian Mune, Arthur Baysting
- Novel
- Christian K. Stead
- Director of Photography
- Michael Seresin
- Original Music Composer
- Mathew Brown, David Calder, Murray Grindlay
- Editor
- Ian John
- Producer
- Roger Donaldson
Details
- Release date
- 1978-07-13
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Maori
- Countries
- New Zealand
- Production
- New Zealand Film Commission, Aardvark Films, Broadbank Investments, New Zealand Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council
- Budget
- $308,205