Sleeping Dogs
What happens when you're hunted...and there's no place to run!
5.6(47) 1978-07-13 107 minActionDramaThriller
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
DirectorRoger Donaldson
ScreenplayIan Mune
ScreenplayArthur Baysting
Original Music ComposerMathew Brown
Original Music ComposerDavid Calder
Original Music ComposerMurray Grindlay
ProducerRoger Donaldson
Cast & characters
Sam Neill
as Smith
Ian Mune
as Bullen
Warren Oates
as Col. Willoughby
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Nevan Rowe
as Gloria
Donna Akersten
as Mary
Ian Watkin
as Dudley
William Johnson
as Cousins
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Melissa Donaldson
as Melissa
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Dougal Stevenson
as News Reader
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Bernard Kearns
as Prime Minister
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Raf Irving
as Reporter
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Cass Donaldson
as Cass
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Don Selwyn
as Taupiri
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Tommy Tinirau
as Old Maori Man
Roger Oakley
as Assassin Leader
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Clyde Scott
as Jesperson
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Dorothy McKegg
as Gloria's Mother
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Tony Groser
as Gloria's Father
Bernard Moody
as Man at Wharf
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Laurie Dee
as Special Sergeant
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Davina Whitehouse
as Elsie
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Ron Cameron
as Special 1
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Rod Collison
as Special 2
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Ken Smith
as Special 3
