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Eureka (Original title)Who Killed Sir Harry Oates? (Help search title)
Dates: 1983 (Copyright), 05 October 1984 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Directed by: Nicolas Roeg

Synopsis: A prospector in Canada discovers a vast quantity of gold, but is warned by a psychic woman that it will bring him only despair. Twenty years later, he is living in fabulous wealth on a Caribbean island, tormented by the emptiness of his existence.

Genre:
Drama
Releases
Date: May 1983Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 129 mins Length: 11638 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 05 October 1984Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 129 mins Dialogue (original): English

Credits (73)
©: Sunley Productions Ltd, Opening Logo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, A JF Productions, Recorded Pictures Company production: JF Productions, Recorded Picture Company, A Sunley feature: Sunley, From: MGM/UA Entertainment Co., Executive Producer: John Foreman, Produced by: Jeremy Thomas, Associate Producer: Tim Van Rellim, Production Manager: Ted Lloyd, Production Accountant: Alex Richards, Accountant: Paul Tucker, Location Manager: Matthew Binns, Assistant to Executive Producer: Dennis Lasker, Production Assistant: Susan Kane, Julia Robinson, Producer's Assistant: Sevilla Delofski, Production Runner: Luc Roeg, 1st Assistant Director: Anthony Waye, 2nd Assistant Director: Terence Madden, Continuity: Kay Fenton, Christine Wilson, Casting UK: Mary Selway, Casting USA: Margery Simkin, Casting Canada: Trish Robinson, Screenplay by: Paul Mayersberg, Based on a book ['Who Killed Sir Harry Oates?'] by: Marshall Houts, Verse from 'The Spell of Yukon' by: Robert W. Service, Director of Photography: Alex Thomson, Camera Operator: John Golding, Focus Puller: Peter Versey, Clapper/Loader: Shane O'Neill, Gaffer Electrician: Jack Conroy, Best Boy: Eamonn Dunne, Grip: Kenny Atherfold, Stills Photographer: David James, Special Effects Supervisor: Peter Hutchinson, J.B. Jones, Film Editor: Tony Lawson, 1st Assistant Film Editor: David Spiers, Production Designed by: Michael Seymour, Supervising Art Director: Les Dilley, Art Director: John Beard, Assistant Art Director/Chief Draughtsman: Peter Childs, Set Dresser: Michael Seirton, Property Buyer: John Lanzer, Property Master: Bob Hedges, Stand-by Prop: Derek Creedon, Construction Manager: Jack Carter, Costume Designer: Marit Allen, Wardrobe Supervisor: Nicolas Ede, Wardrobe Mistress: Catherine Halloran, Make-up: Christine Beveridge, Special Effects Make-up: Jamie Brown, Hairdresser: Martin Samuel, Susan Boyd, Music Composed and Conducted by: Stanley Myers, Double Bass Solos Composed and Conducted by: François Rabbath, Music Recorded at: Wembley C.T.S. Studios, [Music] Recording Engineer: John Richards, Sound Mixer: Paul Le Mare, Boom Operator: Anthony Bell, Sound Assistant: Martin Trevis, Dubbing Mixer: Gerry Humphreys, Assistant Dubbing Mixer: Robin O'Donoghue, Dubbing Editor: Alan Bell, Stunt Double: John Scott, Stunt Double: Del Baker, Art Malesci, Unit Publicist: Mike Russell, Made at: Twickenham Studios
Cast (35)
Gene Hackman (Jack McCann), Theresa Russell (Tracy), Rutger Hauer (Claude Maillot Van Horn), Joe Pesci (Mayakofsky), Jane Lapotaire (Helen McCann), Mickey Rourke (Aurelio D'Amato), Ed Lauter (Charles Perkins), Helena Kallianiotes (Frieda), Joe Spinell (Pete), Norman Beaton (Byron Judson), Corin Redgrave (Worsley), James Faulkner (Roger), Cavan Kendall (Pierre de Valois), Emrys James (judge), Frank Pesce (Stefano), Michael Scott Addis (Joe), Ann Thornton (Jane), Emma Relph (Mary), John Vine (Julian), Tim Van Rellim (police chief), Ellis Dale (jury foreman), Mico Blanco Group (Tonnelle dancers), Aklowa Master Drummers ([Tonnelle dancers] Accompanied by), Lloyd Berry (Olaf), Tom Heaton (man blowing off head), Timothy Scott (Webb), Geri Dewson (whore), Annie Kidder (Rita), Ian Tracey (Joey), Brad Sakiyama (Phil), Sandra Friesen (mother), Raimund Stamm (patron), Suzette Collins (Esther), Tommy Lane, George Roubicek (Miami chauffeur)