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The Deceivers (1988)

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This historical drama, based on a novel by John Masters that was in turn inspired by actual events, follows William Savage (Pierce Brosnan), a British agent of the East India Company, as he is sent with his new wife to India in the early 19th century. While Savage holds the unusually progressive view that the people of India are human and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, he is still a very proper subject of the British empire and behaves accordingly. One night, when he sees a

Jan 18, 2005

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a Victorian colonialist potboiler with art film pretensions

March 22, 2005 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment
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just isn't very interesting or entertaining

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I thought the film was quite enjoyable. Brosnan and Jaffrey were fantastic, and the film moved nicely. Nicholas Meyer shows again why he's great at creating tension in any kind of story and pulls no punches.

January 11, 2012

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