title: Mad Dogs and Englishmen (film)
text: # Mad Dogs and Englishmen (film)
  
  Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a 1995 British thriller film directed by Henry Cole and starring Elizabeth Hurley, C. Thomas Howell and Joss Ackland. The screenplay concerns an upper-class drug addict pursued by the criminal underworld.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Antonia Dyer is a well-to-do Englishwoman with a serious drug habit. Her heroin supply is delivered by an American motorcycle courier named Mike Stone, and before long the two of them also develop a romantic attachment.
  
  Not only does Antonia risk her life with drug use, but she is physically assaulted by a deranged police inspector named Stringer who has a particular distaste for high-society addicts. Stringer also has two dangerous thugs who work on the side for Tony Vernon-Smith, a drug lord, further putting Antonia's life in jeopardy.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Elizabeth Hurley ... Antonia Dyer
  * C. Thomas Howell ... Mike
  * Joss Ackland ... Inspector Sam Stringer
  * Christopher Adamson ... Max Quinlan
  * Marcus Bentley ... Photographer's Assistant
  * Claire Bloom ... Liz Stringer
  * Jeremy Brett ... Tony Vernon-Smith
  * Russ Kane ... Flying Eye Reporter
  * Andrew Connolly ... Clive Nathan
  * Louise Delamere ... Sandy
  * Cheryl Doll ... Young Antonia
  * Nicola Duffett ... Diane
  * Alan Freeman ... Disc Jockey
  * Paula Hamilton ... Charlie
  * David Harewood ... Jessop
  * Ian Henderson ... Surveillance Detective
  * Daniel Jenkins ... Junkie
  * Patrick Lichfield ... Himself
  * Frederick Treves ... Sir Harry Dyer
  