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Director:
Sam Wanamaker
Writers:
Gordon McDonell (story)
Jack Pulman (writer)
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Release Date:
1 May 1970 (Finland) more
Genre:
Thriller | Drama more
Tagline:
Every day he lives, somebody else dies!
Plot:
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent. full summary | add synopsis
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User Reviews:
Interesting, dour spy thriller set largely in post-swinging London. Nothing like as violent as the title suggests. Peppard is excellent. more (5 total)

Cast

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George Peppard ... John Shay

Joan Collins ... Sarah Booth
Judy Geeson ... Polly Bendel
Oskar Homolka ... Racovsky
Charles Gray ... Vaughan Jones
Nigel Patrick ... Colonel Scott
Keith Michell ... Adam Booth
George Baker ... Philip Crawford
Alexander Scourby ... Prof. Parker
Peter Bull ... Butterfield
Ernest Clark ... Roper
Peter Dyneley ... Balkov
Gisela Dali ... Anna
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
USA:107 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1971) | Sweden:15 | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:16 | UK:PG (video rating) | UK:AA (original rating)
Filming Locations:
Athens, Greece more
Company:
Ameran Films more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: At the start of the film one of the dead victims lying by the empty swimming pool is startled and moves when the car explodes, with his head and arm moving. more
Quotes:
John Shay: I thought you guys used Pentothal.
Balkov: We ran out.
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Interesting, dour spy thriller set largely in post-swinging London. Nothing like as violent as the title suggests. Peppard is excellent., 3 September 1999
7/10
Author: Jason K

A dour little spy thriller which acts as a corrective to the James Bond school of spy movies, and benefits from an excellent performance by George Peppard as an exhausted, stressed out Ango-US agent searching for a mole in British Intelligence (just the one?). The atmosphere of post-swinging London is interesting from a modern standpoint, as is the unusual flashback plot structure.

Trivia for Gerry Anderson fans: Both Paul Maxwell (the voice of Steve Zodiac in Fireball XL5) and Peter Dyneley (the voice of Jeff Tracy in Thunderbirds) have quite major roles in The Executioner.

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