Movies
November, 1988
The word thug is derived from a secret sect of thieves and murderers, the thuggees, who worshiped the Hindu goddess Kali and claimed thousands of victims in India well into the 19th Century. Based on a novel by John Masters and directed with high energy and competence by Nicholas Meyer, The Deceivers (Cinecom) stars Pierce Brosnan (a.k.a. TV's Remington Steele) as the British East India Company officer whose real-life counterpart joined, exposed and finally destroyed the Thugs. To avoid detectio...
