Guns in the Heather

Guns in the Heather

144 mins | Action, Adventure, Family, TV Movie | July 7, 1969

An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'

Guns in the Heather

144 mins | Action, Adventure, Family, TV Movie | July 7, 1969

Guns in the Heather
An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Walt Disney Productions, The Walt Disney Company
Original title Guns in the Heather
Directors Bill Westley, Tilly Day, Robert Butler, Dickie Bamber, Barrie Melrose
Writers Lockhart Amerman, Herman Groves

Cast

Glenn Corbett

as Tom Evans

Alfred Burke

as Kersner

Kurt Russell

as Rich Evans

Patrick Dawson

as Sean O'Connor /

Patrick Barr

as Lord Boyne

Hugh McDermott

as Carleton

Patrick Westwood

as Levick

Eddie Byrne

as Bailey

Godfrey Quigley

as Meister

Kevin Stoney

as Ernhardt

Shay Gorman

as Headmaster

Niall Tóibín

as Kettering

Ernst Walder

as Vollos

Robert Bernal

as Sgt. Clune

Vincent Dowling

as Maston

John Horton

as Stafford

J.G. Devlin

as Muldoon

Nicola Davies

as Kathleen

Gerry Alexander

as Paddy

Eamon Morrissey

as Hennessey

Declan Mulholland

as Retchick

Mary Larkin

as Mary

Paul Farrell

as Groundskeeper

Pippa Steel

as Air Stewardess (uncredited)