Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
– A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats e..
Release Date:
17 May 1981
Language:
English
Director:
Lamont Johnson
Writer:
Lionel Chetwynd (screenplay), Lionel Chetwynd (story), Stanley Rubin (story)
Main Actors:
Gordon Pinsent, Chris Wiggins, Diana Barrington, Robert Joy
Plot:
This film tells a combination of how Ken Taylor and his Canadian Embassy staff in Teheran during the Iranian hostage crisis hid half a dozen American embassy staffers at great personal risk. It furthermore tells the story, which was revealed much later to the cover story for the joint CIA/Canadian rescue operation, of how Ken Taylor successfully smuggled those Americans out of Iran safely under the noses of the internal security forces.
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