The Brotherhood of the Rose

• Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
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• Genre: Action
• Movie Type: Unglamorized Spy Film, Political Thriller
• Themes: Conspiracies
• Main Cast: Robert Mitchum, David Morse, Peter Strauss
• Release Year: 1989
• Country: US
• Run Time: 103 minutes

Plot

Based on a novel by David Morrell, the made-for-TV Brotherhood of the Rose is unabashedly old-fashioned escapist espionage fare. Peter Strauss and David Morse play polar-opposite CIA agents, code names Romulus and Remus. Their superior-and father figure-is crusty CIA official Robert Mitchum. Though Romulus and Remus are devoted to Mitchum, he is only concerned with the greater good of the service-a philosophy that has become despotic over the years. Now Mitchum has determined that Romulus is expendable. Escaping from CIA assassins, Romulus and Remus stumble into a vast rule-the-world conspiracy called The Brotherhood of the Rose. Filmed in New Zealand, this was originally a long miniseries broadcast in two parts, on January 22 and 23, 1989 - and then edited down to feature length. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

David Cole; Stig Eldred; Veronica Hamel; Peadar Lamb - Doctor; Rhys McConnochie - Orlik; Robert Mitchum - John Eliot; David Morse - Remus; Martyn Sanderson; Connie Sellecca - Erika Bernstein; James B. Sikking - Felix; Peter Strauss - Romulus; M. Emmet Walsh - Hardy; Frank Whitten; Brett Williams; Nick Enright; Bob Gould; James Hong - Col. Chan; Bill Johnson; Ken Blackburn - Forbes; Norman Forsey; Ian Harrop - Malenov; Michael M. Vendrell; Robert Taylor

Credit

Brad Loman - Costume Designer, Marvin J. Chomsky - Director, Chris Risdale - Editor, William B. Stich - Editor, Laurence Rosenthal - Composer (Music Score), David Copping - Production Designer, James Bartle - Cinematographer, Marvin J. Chomsky - Producer, Gy Waldron - Screenwriter

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