Embassy (film)
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Directed by | Gordon Hessler |
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Based on | Embassy by Stephen Coulter |
Produced by | Mel Ferrer |
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Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
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Music by | Jonathan Hodge |
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Distributed by | Hemdale Film Distribution |
Release date | 2 March 1972 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Embassy is a 1972 British spy thriller film directed by Gordon Hessler, written by John Bird and William Fairchild, and with music scored by Biddu.[1] It is based on the 1969 novel of the same title by Stephen Coulter. It was shot on location in Beirut where the film is set, whereas the novel had been centred in Paris.
The film starred Richard Roundtree as a CIA officer, Ray Milland as an Ambassador, Max von Sydow as a Russian defector taking refuge at the embassy, and Chuck Connors as a KGB assassin posing as a U.S. Air Force officer. Broderick Crawford played the embassy Regional Security Officer, Frank Dunniger, who had to capture and hide the KGB man while the CIA smuggled the defector out of town.
Cast[]
- Richard Roundtree as Richard 'Dick' Shannon
- Chuck Connors as Kesten
- Marie-José Nat as Laure
- Ray Milland as Ambassador
- Broderick Crawford as Frank Dunniger
- Max von Sydow as Gorenko
- David Bauer as Kadish
- as Gamble
- David Healy as Phelan
- Karl Held as Rylands
- Sarah Marshall as Miss Harding
- as Stacey
- as Leila, Receptionist
- as Switchboard Operator
- as First Man in Black
- as Roget
- as Cypher Clerk
- as Clem Gelber
References[]
- ^ McKay p.252
Bibliography[]
- James McKay. Ray Milland: The Films, 1929-1984. McFarland, 2020.
External links[]
- Embassy at IMDb
- http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Embassy_1972_rev.html
- http://www.bcult.it/scheda.asp?Id=12831[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1972 films
- 1970s spy thriller films
- British spy thriller films
- British films
- Films directed by Gordon Hessler
- Films based on British novels
- Cold War spy films
- Films shot in Lebanon
- Films set in Lebanon
- 1972 drama films
- 1970s crime drama film stubs