Wilby Conspiracy, The
Date: 1975
Director: Ralph Nelson
Production Company: Baum/Dantine Productions, Optimus Productions Ltd.
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson
Location(s): Nairobi (Kenya), Gauteng, Western Cape (South Africa)
Region(s): Rest Of The World
Storyline:
An anti-apartheid revolutionary and a mining engineer are pursued by South Africa’s Bureau of State Security.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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The titles appear over a view of Tafelberg, Table Mountain, overlooking Cape Town and Table Bay in Western Cape, South Africa.
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Traffic crosses a busy intersection in Cape Town.
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An unrelenting stream of cars head towards the camera.
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At the Supreme Court, Shack Twala is released from imprisonment at Robben Island Maximum Security Prison after a successful plea by his defence attorney Rina van Niekerk.
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Rina drives Shack Twala and her lover Jim Keogh to her office to celebrate the victory.
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Jim Keogh (Michael Caine) looks across at Rina van Niekerk (Prunella Gee) as they approach a police checkpoint.
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As an Alsatian police dog barks, Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) watches a Constable roughly push a Man towards a wall where he is handcuffed.
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Satisfied with Jim and Rina's identification papers, the Constable asks for Shack's pass.
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Shack is manhandled from the car when he can't show a pass.
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After explaining that her client hasn't got a pass as he has just been released from prison, Rina rushes from the car to free Shack from the Constable's grasp.
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Following a fight against the two Constables by Jim and Shack when Rina is punched, the three get back into the Peugeot Estate and flee from the scene.
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Shack suggests that they head for Johannesburg to avoid capture. That's a Kenya Bus Service double decker in the background.
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The camera pans with the vehicle as the three realise that the estate is now recognisable.
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Taking Rina's estranged husband's Peugeot 504, Jim and Shack drive out of the city. The Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Harambee Avenue, Nairobi. (SR)
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After Major Horn is berated by the District Commissioner for withdrawing road blocks, Jim and Shack drive through the night.
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Passing a petrol station, Jim stops the car when he spots a machine workshop.
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Breaking into the factory, Jim finds a suitable means of freeing Shack from his handcuffs.
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In an aircraft hangar, Major Horn (Nicol Williamson) and Van Heerden (Rijk de Gooyer) question Mrs. van Niekerk after she's caught boarding a flight to Rhodesia.
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Stopping to fill the car's radiator on the almost 900 mile drive to "The City of Gold", Shack carries two cans of water from a stream.
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Two Highway Policemen watch the pair after Jim realises that Shack was the vice-chairman of the Black Congress Party.
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Major Horn and Van Heerden drive slowly past a shop in Colesburg where Jim and Shack are buying provisions.
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Van Heerden spots Jim leaving the store.
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Petrol and more supplies are obtained at a service station.
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Looking through the windscreen of their car, the two Bureau of State Security officials watch as Jim walks towards a tap with a jerry can.
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After placing a tracking device in the Peugeot whilst speaking with Jim, the Major returns to the Mercedes.
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The fugitives drive away from the petrol station after Shack tells Jim that the man he was speaking with is a policeman.
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Fighting to stay awake, Jim weaves across the road as the journey towards Johannesburg continues.
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After finding a dead body in the boot of the car, the men seek help in a nearby village where Shack speaks with Oom Maseko (Abdulla Sunado).
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Following the tracking device, a police helicopter hovers over the village where the car is hidden in one of the huts.
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Jim and Shack reach the outskirts of Johannesburg. In reality this is somewhere in Nairobi as evidenced by the back end of the Kenya Bus Service Guy double decker to the extreme right.
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A view over the city sets the scene. Marshalltown in Johannesburg, Gauteng with Van Der Bijl Square, now Gandhi Square, to the left, the Trust Bank Building, now Umnotho House, on Eloff Street in the foreground and the Standard Bank Centre at 78 Fox Street in the centre distance.
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Jim and Shack pass through the Indian district. In the background stands the Jamia Mosque, Banda Street, Nairobi. (SR)
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People crowd around the car as Shack inches forward through the busy streets.
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Jim decides to wait in a cinema whilst Shack visits an Indian dentist, his man in Johannesburg.
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The Box Office Assistant explains that the film is in Hindi when Jim asks for admission into the segregated cinema.
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Becoming suspicious, Jim makes his way to Dr. Anil Mukerjee's surgery where he learns that diamonds belonging to the Black Congress Party have been hidden in a sink hole.
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Jim drives to Blane van Niekerk's Johannesburg building where he finds Rina before concluding that he has already met the Bureau of State Security operatives that she describes.
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On the street below Dr. Mukerjee's practice, Major Horn and Van Heerden get out of their Mercedes.
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Escaping from the dental surgery, Shack waits in a telephone kiosk until Horn and Van Heerden leave van Niekerk's apartment after interrogating Jim.
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After Rina persuades her estranged husband Blane to fly Jim, Shack and her out of the country, a bus is loaded with supplies to retrieve the diamonds.
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A message is sent to Wilby Xaba.
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Having obtained the diamonds, the two men and Rina make for the Botswanan border where a fight breaks out between Shack and Blane van Niekerk (Rutger Hauer).
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Blane is persuaded to carry out his promise and flies his passengers to Botswana . . . pursued by the South African Air Force.
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The twin engined Cessna lands in Lobatse after crossing the Marico River.
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As Blane takes off, Wilby Xaba (Joe De Graft) walks towards Shack.
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In a commandeered lorry, Major Hoorn and Van Heerden arrive with South African Agents taking Wilby, Shack, Rina and Jim prisoner after a shoot out.