Deadline (1988 film)
# Deadline (1988 film)

Deadline is a 1988 British drama television film, directed by Richard Stroud and based on a novel and adapted for the screen by Tom Stacey, which aired on BBC. It stars John Hurt.

## Plot

An alcoholic Fleet Street journalist is caught up in a coup on an island in the Persian Gulf, where the Emir's son and an enforcer attempt to depose his father.

## Cast

* John Hurt as Granville Jones
* Imogen Stubbs as Lady Romy Burton
* Robert McBain as Sandy McCulloch
* Greg Hicks as Lou Rivers
* Bargach Abdelrahim as Abdullah
* Julian Curry as Stuart-Smith
* David Conville as Sir Geoffrey Burton
* Roshan Seth as The Emir of Hawa
