In September 2004, Fergus, a former SAS operative, persuades his
childhood friend Frankie to join his team of security agents in
Baghdad, for a monthly salary of 12 thousand pounds. The city is
still in the grip of terror, despite the billions of American dollars
that are being showered onto it. In September 2007, Frankie is
killed on the Route Irish, the most dangerous road in Baghdad.
Guilt-stricken, Fergus rejects the official account of his friend's
death and returns to Liverpool to launch his own
enquiry.
Cast: Geoff Bell (Alex Walker),
Andrea Lowe (Rachel),
Najwa Nimri (Marisol),
Stephen Lord (Steve),
John Bishop (Frankie),
Mark Womack (Fergus),
Jamie Michie (Jamie),
Paul J. Dove (Passenger on a Ferry - 1970-1980 flashback),
Jack Fortune (Haynes),
Andy Dwyer,
Gary Cargill,
Trevor Williams (Nelson),
Craig Lundberg (Craig),
Tony Schumacher (Andy),
Donna Elso (Peggy),
Jaimes Locke (Jay),
Natalie Flood,
Sajida Alassan,
R. David (David),
Bradley Thompson (Young Fergus)
Country: UK / France / Italy / Belgium / Spain
Language: English / Arabic
Support: Color
Runtime: 109 min
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
Since the 1920s, Hollywood has dominated the film industry, but that doesn't mean American cinema is all bad - America has produced so many great films that you could never watch them all in one lifetime.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.