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Genre
  
Miniseries

First episode date
  
October 26, 1988

Duration
  

Language
  
English

8/10
IMDb

Director
  
Lawrence Gordon Clark

Cast
  
Lisa Harrow

Country
  
Australia Ireland

Release date
  
26 October 1988

Writer
  
Michael Chaplin, Nick Evans

Screenplay
  
Nicholas Evans, Michael Chaplin

Similar movies
  
The Seventh Floor (1994), The Riddle of the Stinson (1987), Cool Change (1986), The Echo of Thunder (1998), Night of Fear (1972)

Act of Betrayal is a 1988 mini-series that was a co-production between Ireland, Australia and the US.

Contents

It had a budget of $6 million and was later cut down to a 117-minute TV movie.

Plot

Michael McGurk, an IRA man, turns informer and the British police send him to Australia with his family. The IRA send an American hit man, Callaghan, to assassinate him. A woman, Kathy, has an affair with both McGurk and Callaghan.

Cast

  • Lisa Harrow as Eileen McGurk
  • Elliott Gould as Callaghan
  • Patrick Bergin as Michael McGurk
  • Bryan Marshall as Kennedy
  • Krister Greer as Sean McGurk
  • Deborra-Lee Furness as Kathy
  • Max Cullen as Quinn
  • Bosco Hogan as Brady
  • Oliver Maguire as IRA Chief
  • Gerard McSorley as Brendon
  • Stella McCusker as Eileen's Mother

    • Reception

    Max Cullen's performance as an Australian IRA sympathiser won him an AFI.

    References

    Act of Betrayal Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Act of Betrayal IMDb