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Director:
Writers:
Leo Marks (story)
Gerald Vaughan-Hughes (writer)
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Release Date:
10 March 1969 (Sweden) more
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Tagline:
Codes were made to be broken. / Women were made to be loved. / Sebastian was made to do both! more
Plot:
A British mathematician, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Dirk Bogarde ... Sebastian
Nigel Davenport ... Gen. Phillips

John Gielgud ... Head of Intelligence
Lilli Palmer ... Elsa Shahn
Susannah York ... Rebecca Howard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ann Beach ... Pamela
James Belchamber ... Man with Dog
Veronica Clifford ... Ginny
Charles Farrell ... Taxi Driver
Ronald Fraser ... Toby
Alan Freeman ... TV Disc Jockey
Margaret Johnston ... Miss Elliott
Charles Lloyd Pack ... Chess Player
Portland Mason ... 'UG' Girl
Hayward Morse ... Gavin

Janet Munro ... Carol Fancy
Louise Perinell ... Thelma
Lynn Pinkney ... Joan
Jeanne Roland ... Randy
John Ronane ... Jameson
Ann Sidney ... Naomi

Donald Sutherland ... Ackerman
Susan Whitman ... Tilly
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Mr. Sebastian
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Runtime:
100 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Soundtrack:
Here Comes The Night more

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Total '60s, 15 November 2009
6/10
Author: blanche-2 from United States

"Sebastian" is a film from 1968 that is the ultimate swinging London '60s flick, starring Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lili Palmer, and John Gielgud. Bogarde plays a tough, cold on the outside British mathematician who heads a code decryption department during the Cold War. He has many women in his employ, and one of them (Susannah York) falls for him and pursues him, and he reciprocates.

Fun music and atmosphere of the '60s permeates. York is lovely as a smart, pretty woman who knows what she wants, isn't afraid to try for it, and cracks the hardest code in the bunch - Dirk Bogarde. Bogarde is excellent as a man of deep feeling who likes to keep his work life separate from his private life and doesn't quite succeed.

Not much of a plot, but the acting is good - you can't really go wrong with Lili Palmer and John Gielgud in the supporting roles. Palmer plays a codebreaker of long-standing who is nevertheless under suspicion for some of her views, and Gielgud is one of the big bosses over Bogarde.

Enjoyable.

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