The Glory Boys

The Glory Boys is a 1984 British three-part television thriller miniseries made for Yorkshire Television and first broadcast on the ITV network between 1 and 3 October 1984, starring Rod Steiger and Anthony Perkins. It is about two terrorists, one from the IRA and another from the PLO, who meet up in London to assassinate an Israeli nuclear scientist.

Cast

Rod Steiger as Professor David Sokarev
Anthony Perkins as Jimmy
Alfred Burke as Jones
Joanna Lumley as Helen
Sallyanne Law as Norah
Aaron Harris as Cillian McCoy
Gary Brown as Famy

Production

Steiger and Perkins were at loggerheads during the production of The Glory Boys. Perkins resented the fact that Steiger insisted on a bigger trailer and felt that Steiger was trying to steal scenes from him, while Steiger had thought Perkins "so jittery and jinxed by the chemicals he was taking" that he felt sorry for him and believed that he was jeopardizing the success of the film.