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3 unusual facts about The Wilby Conspiracy


The Wilby Conspiracy

Rina, estranged from her husband Blane, is having a relationship with an English mining engineer, Jim Keogh (played by Michael Caine), who has attended Shack's trial.

In apartheid-era South Africa, Shack Twala (played by Sidney Poitier), a black revolutionary who had served time on Robben Island, is freed by Rina van Niekerk, his Afrikaner defence attorney, because he would be a victim of retroactive legislation.

The Wilby Conspiracy was also the western film debut of Indian actress Persis Khambatta, who would appear in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and with Rutger Hauer in Nighthawks.



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