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''Clash of Loyalties'' ((アラビア語:Al-Mas'ala Al-Kubra), aka ''The Great Question'') is a 1983 Iraqi film focusing on the formation of Iraq out of Mesopotamia in the aftermath of the First World War.〔 The film was financed by Saddam Hussain, filmed in Iraq (mainly at the Baghdad Film Studios in Baghdad's Mansour neighbourhood and on location at the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands, Babylon and Kut) at the height of the Iran–Iraq War and starred Oliver Reed as Gerard Leachman, Marc Sinden as Captain Dawson and Helen Ryan as Gertrude Bell, with a stirring score by Ron Goodwin. It is notorious for being the last film made to use the now banned "Running W" technique, invented by the only Oscar-winning stuntman Yakima (Yak) Canutt, which was a method of bringing down a horse at the gallop by attaching a wire, anchored to the ground, to its fetlocks and so launching the rider forwards spectacularly at a designated point. It invariably killed the horse, or at best it was unrideable afterwards. The British actor and friend of Yak Marc Sinden and stuntman Ken Buckle (who had been trained by Yak) performed the highly-dangerous stunt three times during the huge cavalry charge sequence.〔〔Kent Messenger 12/10/84〕 Investigative journalist James Montague, writing in the July 2014 issue of ''Esquire'' magazine, claimed that Sinden spied for the British Government's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the filming of ''Clash of Loyalties'' in Iraq, after being made "an offer he couldn’t refuse, appealing to his duty and his pride in Queen and Country." In the article Sinden admitted that it was true. Both Arab and English versions of the film were produced. The film was nominated for the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival in 1983.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983) )〕 ==Cast== * Yousef al-Any as Blind Leader * Ghazi al-Takriti as Dhari al-Mahmood * Bernard Archard as Sir Percy Cox * John Barron as General Haldane * James Bolam as A. T. Wilson * Helen Cherry as Lady Cox * Barrie Cookson as Colonel Hardcastle * Sami Abdul Hameed as Nationalist Leader (as Sami Abdul Hamid) * Oliver Reed as Colonel Leachman * Helen Ryan as Gertrude Bell * Marc Sinden as Captain Dawson 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clash of Loyalties」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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