During the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.
Production Details
Produced at Shepperton Studios
92 Mins
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Art Direction | Don Mingaye | 38 | 31 Dec 1928 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 40 |
Camera Operator | Cecil Cooney | 61 | 10 Sep 1906 | 1 Sep 1993 | 86 | 5 |
Camera Operator | Gerry Anstiss | 39 | 31 Dec 1927 | 20 Feb 1999 | 71 | 1 |
Continuity | Kay Mander | 52 | 27 Sep 1915 | 29 Dec 2013 | 98 | 2 |
Director | Seth Holt | 44 | 20 Jun 1923 | 14 Feb 1971 | 47 | 3 |
Director Of Photography | Harry Waxman | 55 | 2 Apr 1912 | 24 Dec 1984 | 72 | 3 |
Make-Up Artist | George Partleton | 58 | 20 Jan 1909 | 16 Oct 1992 | 83 | 6 |
Musical Director | Philip Martell | 60 | 5 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 105 |
Set Dresser | Andrew Low | 4 | ||||
Sound Mixer | Sid Squires | 1 | ||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Balin | Reg Lye | 55 | 14 Oct 1912 | 23 Mar 1987 | 74 | 2 |
Bennett | David Bauer | 50 | 5 Mar 1917 | 8 Feb 1973 | 55 | 1 |
Halliwell | Timothy Bateson | 41 | 3 Apr 1926 | 15 Sep 2019 | 83 | 3 |
Jocelyn | Carol Lynley | 25 | 13 Feb 1942 | 3 Sep 2019 | 77 | 2 |
Jonas Wilde | Richard Johnson | 40 | 29 Jul 1927 | 5 Jun 2015 | 87 | 1 |
Peter Ravenspur | Maurice Denham | 57 | 22 Dec 1909 | 24 Jul 2002 | 92 | 4 |
Rhoda Goodrich | Diana Dors | 36 | 22 Oct 1931 | 4 May 1984 | 52 | 3 |
Tony Canning | Harry Andrews | 56 | 9 Nov 1911 | 3 Jun 1986 | 74 | 1 |
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Footnotes
Penultimate film directed by Seth Holt. This was actually Holt’s final completed picture as he died before his last film, Hammer’s Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971) was finished.
Top billed Richard Johnson, as Jonas Wild, was director Terence Young’s first choice to play James Bond when casting Dr. No (1962).