Guns in the Heather
Guns in the Heather
Release: 1969-07-23
·Runtime: 144m
·★ 4.5
Action
Adventure
Family
TV Movie
An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Walt Disney Productions
Cast
Eddie Byrne
as Bailey
Niall Tóibín
as Kettering
John Horton
as Stafford
Glenn Corbett
as Tom Evans
Kevin Stoney
as Ernhardt
J.G. Devlin
as Muldoon
Mary Larkin
as Mary
Pippa Steel
as Air Stewardess (uncredited)
Alfred Burke
as Kersner
Kurt Russell
as Rich Evans
Hugh McDermott
as Carleton
Godfrey Quigley
as Meister
Shay Gorman
as Headmaster
Ernst Walder
as Vollos
Paul Farrell
as Groundskeeper
Patrick Barr
as Lord Boyne
