The Black Windmill (Original title)Drabble (Working title)
Date: 1974 (Copyright)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Don Siegel
Synopsis: Spy drama concerning Major Tarrant, an agent whose son has been kidnapped by one of his own spy colleagues, the ransom for which are diamonds to be used to foil an international weapons smuggling ring.
Genre: Crime
Subject: Espionage
Releases
Date: 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 106 mins Length: 9539 FeetLanguage: English
Date: 1974 (Copyright)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Don Siegel
Synopsis: Spy drama concerning Major Tarrant, an agent whose son has been kidnapped by one of his own spy colleagues, the ransom for which are diamonds to be used to foil an international weapons smuggling ring.
Genre: Crime
Subject: Espionage
Releases
Date: 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 106 mins Length: 9539 FeetLanguage: English
Credits
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©: Universal Pictures Limited, A Zanuck/Brown production: Zanuck/Brown Company, Presents: Universal Pictures, Executive Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, Executive Producer: David Brown, Produced by: Don Siegel, Associate Producer: Scott Hale, Production Manager: Eva Monley, Assistant Director: Kip Gowans, Continuity: Angela Allen, Screenplay by: Leigh Vance, From 'Seven Days to a Killing' by: Clive Egleton, Photography: Ousama Rawi, Camera Operator: Jimmy Devis, Film Editor: Antony Gibbs, Art Director: Peter Murton, Costume Designer: Anthony Mendleson, Wardrobe Supervisor: Rosemary Burrows, Make-up: Freddie Williamson, Music by: Roy Budd, Sound Recordist: John Mitchell, Sound Recordist: Gerry Humphreys, Sound Editor: Les Wiggins
Cast
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Michael Caine (Major John Tarrant), Donald Pleasence (Cedric Harper), Delphine Seyrig (Ceil Burrows), Clive Revill (Alf Chestermann), John Vernon (McKee), Joss Ackland (Chief Superintendant Wray), Janet Suzman (Alex Tarrant), Catherine Schell (Lady Julyan), Joseph O'Conor (Sir Edward Julyan), Denis Quilley (Bateson), Derek Newark (monitoring policeman), Edward Hardwicke (Mike McCarthy), Maureen Pryor (Jane Harper), Joyce Carey (Harper's Secretary), Preston Lockwood (Ilkeston), Molly Urquhart (Margaret), David Daker (thickset M15 man), Hermione Baddeley (Hetty), Patrick Barr (General St. John), Paul Moss (David Tarrant), Mark Praid (James Stroud), Cooper (Pincus), John Rhys-Davies (special policeman), Brenda Cowling (pleasant secretary), Nancy Gabrielle (manageress), Murray Brown (doctor), Hilary Sesta (Ilkeston's secretary), Frank Henson (S.P. driver), Derek Lord (Sellars), Michael Segal (postman), Paul Humpoletz (Tomkins), John Harvey (Heppenstal), Russell Napier (Admiral Ballentyne), Anthony Verner (Magnus Petrie), Robert Dorning (jeweller)