SYNOPSIS
Broad political farce which follows the exploits of a world-travelling TV news correspondent Patrick Hale (Sean Connery) working for the World Television Network, who uncovers a terrorist plot to get hold of a nuclear bomb to sell to a Middle-Eastern oil country. This is an often funny yet unnerving satire, where the President of the United States (George Grizzard) tries to deny to the public that there’s a bomb, while his political opponent tries to prove its existences for electoral gain, and chauvinist General Wombat (Robert Conrad) just wants to bomb the whole goddamn Middle-East….