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Director:
Don Siegel
Writers:
Clive Egleton (novel)
Leigh Vance (screenplay)
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Release Date:
2 August 1974 (Finland) more
Genre:
Thriller more
Tagline:
The ultimate exercise in controlled terror.
Plot:
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself. full summary | add synopsis
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Promising plot, but with several holes in it more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Caine ... Maj. John Tarrant

Donald Pleasence ... Cedric Harper
Delphine Seyrig ... Ceil Burrows
Clive Revill ... Alf Chestermann

John Vernon ... McKee

Joss Ackland ... Chief Supt. Wray
Catherine Schell ... Lady Melissa Julyan
Janet Suzman ... Alex Tarrant
Joseph O'Conor ... Sir Edward Julyan (as Joseph O'Connor)
Denis Quilley ... Bateson
Paul Moss ... David Tarrant
Derek Newark ... Monitoring Policeman
Edward Hardwicke ... Mike McCarthy
Maureen Pryor ... James Harper
Joyce Carey ... Miss Monley - Harper's Secretary
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Drabble (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
106 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:12 (re-rating) (2006) | UK:A (original rating) | Australia:M | West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Iceland:12

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Trivia:
According to a book on Michael Reeves, Nicky Henson was interviewed for a role. more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Promising plot, but with several holes in it, 2 February 2007
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Author: Marlburian from United Kingdom

I usually enjoy Michael Caine's films, but though this one started promising enough, its second half made the overall effect disappointing. The most dissatisfying aspect was how Tarrant and his wife worked out exactly where their son was being held on the basis of a phone call from the Brighton area and the villain's reference to a "pleasant farm" and two "rather unusual windows"; this defied belief.

Other contributors have already noted one witty reference, to "Sean Connery"; there is another, in that the Tarrants rendezvous outside a cinema where "Battle of Britain" (starring Caine) is showing.

And wasn't that Richard Attenborough playing the jeweller visited by the two men from New Scotland Yard; this role appears not to feature in the filmographies I've glanced at.

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