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Countryman (Original title)Countrymen (Alternative title)
Date: 1982 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Dickie Jobson

Synopsis: Political thriller. In Jamaica, fisherman Countryman rescues two Americans when their plane crashes, but then has to hide them from the military police who plan to arrest them on false charges of gunrunning for the opposition party.

Genre:
Thriller

Subject:
Politics
Credits (36)
Production Company: Island Pictures, Executive Producer: Stephan Sperry, Producer: Chris Blackwell, Production Manager: Eddie Babbage, Production Administrator: Colin Leslie, Production Assistant: Andy McConnell, Screenplay: Dickie Jobson, Screenplay: Michael Thomas, Script Contributor: Ellen Sherman, Script Contributor: Carol Adler, Tony Tyler, Original Story: Dickie Jobson, Director of Photography: Dominique Chapuis, Assistant Photographer: Arthur Cloquet, Special Effects: Paul Weston, Special Effects: Donald Waugh, Special Effects: Bob Harman, Graphic Designer: Tony Wright, Supervising Editor: John Victor Smith, Supervising Editor: Peter Boyle, Assistant Editor: Chris Blunden, Assistant Editor: Peter Holt, Assistant Editor: Len Tremble, Assistant Editor: Chris Lloyd, Art Director: Bernard Leonard, Costumes: Hertencer Lindsay, Costumes: Barbara Parkin, Make-up: Natalie Rosecoat, Titles: Camera Effects, Music: Wally Badarou, Sound Recording: Roger Letellier, Sound Re-recording: Gerry Humphreys, Sound Editor: Mike Crouch, Sound Editor: Jim Roddan, Beau's Double: Tracey Loggia
Cast (23)
Countryman (himself), Hiram Keller (Bobby Lloyd), Carl Bradshaw (Captain Benchley), Basil Keane (Colonel Sinclair), Freshey Richardson (Mosman), Kristina St. Clair (Beau Porter), Jahman (Jahman), Papa Three-Card (Sadu Baba), Monair Zacca (Periera), Dee Anthony (Mr. Porter), Ronnie Mckay (Wax), Claudia Robinson (woman in white), Ronald Gossop (biker), Oliver Sammuels (Pillion), Chin (fish vendor), Buster Jameson (Ezekiel), Bobby Russell, Lucien Tai Ten Quee (policeman in bar), Peter Packer (boat captain), Jim Newman (Larry), Kingsley Rose, Honey Fernandez (cockfighter), Duncan Booth (dwarf)