It was directed by Jane Howell and starred David Jason, Anne Carroll, Rowena Cooper, Con O'Neill and Lee Ross.
[1] Amongst Barbarians is set far away from Margaret Thatcher's Britain in Penang, Malaysia, a former British colony, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking.
As they both face the death penalty, their relatives travel to Penang to come to their rescue.
Wall's play is based on the true story of the Barlow and Chambers execution.
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