Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper

Risk, resilience, and rescue amidst revolution.

This film tells a combination of how Ken Taylor and his Canadian Embassy staff in Teheran during the Iranian hostage crisis hid half a dozen American embassy staffers at great personal risk. It furthermore tells the story, which was revealed much later to the cover story for the joint CIA/Canadian rescue operation, of how Ken Taylor successfully smuggled those Americans out of Iran safely under the noses of the internal security forces.

Direction

Lamont Johnson

Screenplay

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Lionel Chetwynd

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Stanley Rubin

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Les Harris