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Deadly Voyage (Original title)
Date: 12 October 1996 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Mackenzie

Synopsis: Action adventure drama based on a true story. Kingsley, a young Ghanian docker decides to go to America to become an engineer. With a group of friends, he organises them to stowaway on a Ukranian cargo ship. They are discovered by the crew who incarcerate them, murder them, and throw them overboard. Only Kingsley escapes to tell the story when the ship docks at Le Havre in France.Synopsis: Budget: $7million

Genre:
Action and Adventure

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TV Transmissions
Date: 12 October 1996Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:30-23:00Runtime: 87 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound

Credits (21)
Production Company: Viva Films Limited, Production Company: Union Pictures, Sponsor: Home Box Office, Sponsor: BBC, Executive Producer: George Faber, Executive Producer: Franc Roddam, Executive Producer: Danny Glover, Producer: John Goldschmidt, Producer: Bradley Adams, Producer: John Mackenzie, Line Producer: Paul Cowan, Production Manager: Chris Wheeldon, Screenplay: Stuart Urban, Photography: Dick Pope, Editor: David Spiers, Production Designer: Simon Holland, Art Director: Crispian Sallis, Art Director: Tony Reading, Costumes: Howard Burden, Studio: Pinewood Studios
Cast (20)
David Suchet (Vlachos), Omar Epps (Kingsley Ofosu), Sean Pertwee (Ion), Joss Ackland (Captain), Andrew Divoff (Romachenko), Jean Claude La Marre (Albert), Adewalé (Emmanuel), Ilia Volokh (Petr), Roman Varshavsky (Yuri), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Ebow), Omanza Eugene Shaw (Anduse), Henry Nartey (Moses), Oscar Provencal (Charles), Wakefield Ackuaku (Paul), David Dontoh (Bob), Maxine Burth (Agnes), Michael Byrne (Commissioner), Ravil Isyanov (Mikhail), Tomas Lukes (Palamarchouk), Zillah Yeo (Judy)