Deadline (1988 film)

Deadline is a 1988 British drama television film, directed by Richard Stroud and based on a novel and adapted for the screen by Tom Stacey, which aired on BBC. It stars John Hurt.

Plot
An alcoholic Fleet Street journalist is caught up in a coup on an island in the Persian Gulf, where the Emir's son and an enforcer attempt to depose his father.

Cast

 * John Hurt as Granville Jones
 * Imogen Stubbs as Lady Romy Burton
 * Robert McBain as Sandy McCulloch
 * Greg Hicks as Lou Rivers
 * Bargach Abdelrahim as Abdullah
 * Julian Curry as Stuart-Smith
 * David Conville as Sir Geoffrey Burton
 * Roshan Seth as The Emir of Hawa