Edge of Darkness
1985 | Thriller | UK | Created by Troy Kennedy Martin
Overview
A Yorkshire detective investigates the murder of his activist daughter and falls into a nuclear industrial conspiracy. Bob Peck played grief as an engine, with Joe Don Baker as a CIA cowboy. Six hours, a Bafta sweep, and an Eric Clapton score. Kennedy Martin wrote an anti nuclear state thriller that unsettled governments. The Mel Gibson remake came in 2010. British conspiracy drama at its peak.
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