Who Dares Wins

SYNOPSIS

Who Dares Wins (released as The Final Option in the US) is a 1982 British action film directed by Ian Sharp and starring Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Tony Doyle and Edward Woodward. The film is loosely based on the actions of the British Army's Special Air Service (SAS) in the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege; however, the plot makes considerable fictionalised departures from the actual siege and its background, and instead follows SAS Captain Peter Skellen as he infiltrates a terrorist group planning an attack on American diplomats. The film's title references the motto of the SAS. Euan Lloyd, the film's producer, witnessed the Iranian embassy siege first-hand and was inspired to make a film based on it, moving quickly to prevent someone else from developing t