Assignment K
1968 film by Val Guest
- 18 February 1968 (1968-02-18)
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Assignment K is a 1968 British spy thriller film directed by Val Guest in Techniscope and starring Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv, Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Robert Hoffmann and Jeremy Kemp.[1] The film was based on the 1964 novel Department K by Hartley Howard.
Plot
A British spy has his cover blown, leading to the East German Stasi kidnapping his girlfriend to try to extract information about his double agents' activities.[2]
Cast
- Stephen Boyd as Philip Scott
- Camilla Sparv as Toni Peters
- Michael Redgrave as Harris
- Leo McKern as Smith
- Robert Hoffmann as Paul Spiegler
- Jeremy Kemp as Hal
- Jane Merrow as Martine
- Carl Möhner as Inspector (as Carl Moehner)
- Vivi Bach as Erika Herschel
- Werner Peters as Kramer
- Dieter Geissler as Kurt
- John Alderton as George
- Jan Werich as Dr. Spiegler
- David Healy as David
- Ursula Howells as Estelle
- Basil Dignam as Howlett
- Geoffrey Bayldon as The Boffin
- Joachim Hansen as Heinrich Herschel
Production
Val Guest said "We shot it all out in Kitzbuhel, great cast: we had my Leo McKern again, and Michael Redgrave who was a very sick man, had terrible difficulties with his lines... Stephen [Boyd] was a wonderful person, a great giggler, a great professional, very nice guy."[3]
See also
References
External links
- Assignment K at IMDb
- Assignment K at AllMovie
- Assignment K at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Val Guest
- Miss London Ltd. (1943)
- Bees in Paradise (1944)
- Give Us the Moon (1944)
- I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
- Just William's Luck (1947)
- William Comes to Town (1948)
- Murder at the Windmill (1949)
- Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1949)
- Mister Drake's Duck (1951)
- Penny Princess (1952)
- The Runaway Bus (1954)
- Life with the Lyons (1954)
- Dance, Little Lady (1954)
- The Body Said No! (1954)
- The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954)
- The Lyons in Paris (1955)
- Break in the Circle (1955)
- The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
- They Can't Hang Me (1955)
- It's a Wonderful World (1956)
- Carry On Admiral (1957)
- The Weapon (1957)
- Quatermass 2 (1957)
- The Abominable Snowman (1957)
- The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
- Up the Creek (1958)
- Further Up the Creek (1958)
- Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
- Expresso Bongo (1959)
- Life Is a Circus (1960)
- Hell Is a City (1960)
- The Full Treatment (1960)
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
- Jigsaw (1962)
- 80,000 Suspects (1963)
- The Beauty Jungle (1964)
- Where the Spies Are (1965)
- Casino Royale (1967)
- Assignment K (1968)
- Toomorrow (1970)
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
- Au Pair Girls (1972)
- Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
- Killer Force (1976)
- The Boys in Blue (1982)
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