The Patriot Game (1979)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 33分
演出 : Arthur MacCaig
シノプシス
The film's introduction covers Ireland's history from British colonization to the territory's division in 1922. THE PATRIOT GAME then details the events of the decade that began in 1968. Through powerful portraits of rebellion and eyewitness accounts of killings and such massacres as the infamous "Bloody Sunday," the film shows the IRA at work - much of it filmed clandestinely - as they argue their cause which, in this country and in most of the world, has gone unheard.
CIA分析官を辞職し、アメリカ海軍兵学校の教官となったジャック・ライアンは仕事を兼ねて妻と娘の三人でロンドンに来ていた。
ライアンが講演の仕事を終えて家族との待ち合わせ場所であるバッキンガム宮殿の広場に着いた時、イギリス王室のホームズ卿がIRAの過激派グループに襲撃される。持ち前の正義感から襲撃犯と撃ち合いになりホームズ卿を助け、ショーンの逮捕に協力、彼の弟を射殺する。
だが、今度は護送中に脱走し弟の復讐に燃えるショーンのターゲットになってしまい、なおもホームズ卿の命を狙うケビンのIRAグループの事件にも巻き込まれていく。
ロンドンの爆破テロで愛娘を失い、悲しみに包まれる料理屋の店主。そして男は、犯人の素性をつかみ、自らの手で制裁を下さんとする復讐(ふくしゅう)の鬼と化す。
NY市警官トムの家に同居することになったローリーは、アイルランドから来た好青年。彼はトムの妻や娘ともすぐに親しくなるが……。異色2大スターの顔合わせによるサスペンス・アクション。
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