CAST AND CREW

DIRECTOR
Hugh Hudson

WRITING CREDITS
Robert Dillon

CAST
Al Pacino Tom Dobb
Donald Sutherland Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Nastassja Kinski Daisy McConnahay
Joan Plowright Mrs. McConnahay
Dave King Mr. McConnahay
Steven Berkoff Sgt. Jones
John Wells Corty
Annie Lennox Liberty Woman
Dexter Fletcher Ned Dobb
Sid Owen Young Ned
Richard O'Brien Lord Hampton
Paul Brooke Lord Darling
Eric Milota Merle

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In the yellow brazier light of a late night shoot, British director Hugh Hudson, cloaked against the biting cold, watches with satisfaction as Al Pacino and Nastassja Kinski, playing two lovers on opposite sides of the American Revolution, enact a moving scene. "I've waited too long and worked too hard for this to let small minds take it away," Hudson says, speaking of his film, Revolution, which has just been released after its own rather warlike production period. The cause of the big battle: big money and big stars.

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the British Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.