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The Riddle of the Sands

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1979
 102 minutes (1 hrs 42 mins)

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Directed by

Tony Maylam

Starring

Michael York · Jenny Agutter · Simon MacCorkindale · Alan Badel · Jurgen Andersen · Michael Sheard

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 4th January 1980
Ireland release date Ireland release: 16th March 1979
Portugal release date Portugal release: 9th August 1979

Certificates

US
PG

L

16

G

Total grosses

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Classic review: The Riddle of the Sands  The Christian Science Monitor Mon, 2nd September 2013

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B-Sides: Erskine Childers’s “The Riddle of the Sands”  Public Books Thu, 6th December 2018

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Mike Nelson: Triple Canyon Bluff, Modern Art Oxford  The Guardian Tue, 11th May 2004

QI: Quite interesting facts about the riddle of sand  The Telegraph Fri, 3rd August 2012