accompanied by a rendition of The Red Flag. Cast Lewis Collins as Captain Peter Skellen, SAS Judy Davis as Frankie Leith Richard Widmark as Secretary of State Arthur Currie Edward Woodward as Commander Powell, Metropolitan Police Robert Webber as General Ira Potter Tony Doyle as Colonel J. Hadley, SAS commander John Duttine as Rod Walker Kenneth Griffith as the Very Reverend Horace W. Crick, the Bishop of Camden Rosalind Lloyd as Jenny Skellen Ingrid Pitt as Helga Norman Rodway as Ryan Maurice Roëves as Major Steele Bob Sherman as Captain Hagen, US Army Rangers Albert Fortell as Captain Freund, GSG9 Mark Ryan as Mac Peter Turner as Terrorist Patrick Allen as Police Commissioner Trevor Byfield as SAS trooper Steve Baker Nick Brimble as SAS trooper Williamson Anna Ford as Newsreader Aharon Ipalé as Andrey Malek Paul Freeman as Sir Richard Oz Clarke as Special Branch Man Production Development Euan Lloyd gained the idea for the film from events surrounding the siege of the Iranian embassy in London, most notably the storming of the building on 5 May 1980 by the SAS. Living just half a mile from the embassy, he visited it on multiple occasions during the four days it was occupied by terrorists, witnessing the dramatic ending to the siege in person. That same evening he called his lawyer in New York and asked him to register 5 titles with the Motion Picture Association of America, one of which was SAS: Who Dares Wins. In a slightly abbreviated form, this became the name of the film based on the incident which he then set out to make. "Since John Wayne and Jack Warner have left the scene its become unfashionable to wave the flag", said Lloyd. He hoped the film would counterbalance the anti-authority message of films like The China Syndrome, War Games, Missing and Gandhi. "I watched in awe at what these SAS men did, and truly I felt very proud", Lloyd said. "Terrorism worries me greatly, so here was an opportunity for me to say what I've felt for a long time." Lloyd contacted friend, writer and former intelligence officer, George Markstein and commissioned a treatment. They decided to end the film with an embassy siege, but to make the film more relevant to US audiences they changed it to the US embassy. They also changed Iranian extremists to anti-nuclear protesters. Markstein wrote a treatment in a