The President's Mistress

The President's Mistress (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Llewellyn Moxey

Written By:
Patrick Anderson
Tom Lazarus

Actors:
Beau Bridges ..... Ben Morton
Susan Blanchard ..... Margaret 'Mugsy' Evans
Joel Fabiani ..... Jim Gilkrest
Larry Hagman ..... Ed Murphy
Don Porter ..... Craig
Thalmus Rasulala ..... Lieutenant Gordon
Gail Strickland ..... Gwen Bowers
Titos Vandis ..... Anatoly
Karen Grassle ..... Donna Morton
Michael Bell ..... Bradley
Janice Carroll ..... Jan
Patricia Wilson ..... Claire Whitmore
Richard Balin ..... Bill Kincaid
Gregory Gaye ..... Josef
John J. Fox ..... Phil - Doorman

Synopsis:

When Ben investigates the mysterious death of his sister, he is unaware that he is opening up a web of political intrigue. Ed Murphy, the White House Chief of Staff, becomes embroiled in a struggle to save the President from a humiliating scandal.

Donna Morton has been having an affair with the President of the United States for several months, regularly meeting with him for assignations in a safe house in Washington, D.C.. She is always picked up in a car by a Secret Service agent. In Moscow, an agent in the Kremlin manages to get hold of a secret document identifying Donna Morton as a KGB agent sent to spy on the president. This document is passed back to Washington where it comes into the possession of the CSA (a loosely-disguised version of the CIA). They begin to put Donna Marton under surveillance. The same day, her brother Ben Morton - a Washington businessmen and occasional courier for the CSA - arrived back in the city. On the plane he meets and romances Mugsy Evans. When Donna Morton suddenly turns up dead in her apartment moments before she was due to be picked up by her Secret Service driver, he begins to investigate. He discovers her affair with the President, and through his contacts with the Secret Service, he discovers a CSA agent was seen leaving her apartment building around the time of his death. The Secret Service agent who regularly drove Donna, informs him that the CSA were there, but before any more information can be passed on he is killed. Realising now that the CSA had played a large role in her death, Ben Morton confronts the head of the CSA who tells him it was the Soviets who killed her, and that she was a Soviet agent. He explains that the man who probably performed the deed was the head KGB agent in Washington, Anatoly. Anatoly is the Soviet Naval Attaché who he interrogates at gunpoint in the car. He tells him everything he knows - that the classified document identifying Donna Morton as a Soviet agent was a fake, designed to throw the CSA off-balance, which had always been intended to fall into American hands. The KGB had thus hoped to destabilise the White House during crucial talks with China.

A government agent finds himself in the middle of a deadly struggle when he discovers that his murdered sister was both mistress of the President of the United States and a Soviet agent.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 July, 2012.