Assignment K

Assignment K

Directed by	Val Guest
Produced by	Maurice Foster Ben Arbeid
Written by	Maurice Foster Val Guest Bill Strutton
Based on	Department K 1964 novel by Hartley Howard
Starring	Stephen Boyd Camilla Sparv Michael Redgrave Leo McKern
Music by	Basil Kirchin
Cinematography	Ken Hodges
Edited by	Jack Slade
Production company	Gildor Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	June 1968
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Assignment K is a 1968 Technicolor British thriller film directed by Val Guest in Techniscope, and starring Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv, Michael Redgrave and Leo McKern.^[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
Jeremy Kemp as Hal
Robert Hoffmann as Paul Spiegler
Jane Merrow as Martine
Carl Möhner as Inspector
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
Catherine Schell as Maggi

References

↑ "Assignment K(1968)". Yahoo Movies. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
↑ "Assignment K(1968)". TCM. Retrieved 31 May 2012.

External links

Assignment K at the Internet Movie Database
Assignment K at AllMovie
Assignment K at the TCM Movie Database
Assignment K at the American Film Institute Catalog

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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