July 02, 2009

Movie Minute: Fifty Dead Men Walking

By News Desk

Release Date: July 9, 2009 (Exclusively at The Picturehouse, Singapore)

Rating: M18 (Singapore)

Directed By: Kari Skogland

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers, Natalie Press, Rose Mcgowan

Official Website: www.fiftydeadmenwalkingmovie.com

Inspired by Martin McGartland's shocking real life story, Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s, recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA.

He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whist feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process; until one day he is exposed, captured and tortured to within an inch of his life. He escaped dramatically by throwing himself from a tower block window and is still in hiding today.