Midnight Man

Midnight Man

Midnight Man

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Midnight Man

1997

1h 34m

5.3(9 votes)

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Overview

British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme that could result in trouble between China and Great Britain.

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Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe

Sean Dillon

Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham

Brigadier Charles Ferguson

Deborah Moore

Deborah Moore

Hannah Bernstein

Hannes Jaenicke

Hannes Jaenicke

Engel

Daphne Cheung

Daphne Cheung

Su Yin

Ellen David

Ellen David

Myra

Michael Sarrazin

Michael Sarrazin

Tayi

Ben Gaule

Mirov

Aaron Shirley

Dovotny

John Warnaby

Nigel

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Directed by: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Written by: Jurgen Wolff
Produced by: Jim Reeve

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