'Dead Men' subject walks away from table

September 05, 2008 An eleventh-hour bid to get a former British spy to waive his moral rights before Wednesday's Toronto International Film Festival screening of a story based on his memoirs has failed. Lawyers for the British co-producers of Kari Skogland's "Fifty Dead Men Walking" met Friday in London with Martin McGartland, a former IRA mole whose 1998 autobiography provided the basis for the British-Canadian co-production. McGartland, who provided information to Britain's Special Branch before his cover was blown in 1991, insists that fictionalized scenes in the movie infringe his moral rights by portraying him as an accessory to torture and murder when he claims he aimed to save lives.

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