Assignment Redhead
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Directed by | Maclean Rogers |
Screenplay by | Maclean Rogers |
Based on | Requiem for a Redhead by Lindsay Hardy |
Produced by | William G. Chalmers Richard Gordon |
Starring | Richard Denning Carole Mathews Ronald Adam Danny Green |
Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Peter Mayhew |
Music by | Wilfred Burns |
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Distributed by | Rank Film Organisation (UK) |
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Running time | 79 mins |
Countries | United Kingdom United States |
Language | English |
Budget | over £15,000[1] |
Assignment Redhead (released in the US as Million Dollar Manhunt) is a 1956 British crime thriller film written and directed by Maclean Rogers.[2] It is based on the novel Requiem for a Redhead by Lindsay Hardy.
Synopsis
Murderous international master criminal Dumetrius specialises in providing false travel documents. He flies to London from post-war Berlin with twelve million dollars in counterfeit cash. To cover his tracks he kills one passenger, frames another, and then hides out with a cabaret cigarette girl. American Major Keen is working for British intelligence and pursues him. Keen falls for a redheaded singer and accordion-player, who is under Dumetrius's control.
Cast
- Richard Denning as Major Gregory Keen
- Carole Mathews as Hedy Bergner
- Ronald Adam as Major Scammel / Dumetrius
- Danny Green as Yotti Blum
- Brian Worth as Captain Peter Ridgeway
- Jan Holden as Sally Jennings
- Hugh Moxey as Sergeant Tom Coutts
- Peter Swanwick as Monsieur Paul Bonnet
- Elwyn Brook-Jones as Digby Mitchel
- Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Colonel Julian Fentriss, M.I.5.
- Robert O'Neil as Captain Hank Godowski
- Paul Hardtmuth as Dr. Buchmann
- Bill Nagy as Marzotti
- Alex Gallier as Max Rubenstein
- Robert Bruce as Staff Officer
- George Holdcroft as Nightclub Diner
Production
The film was the first of seven made by Richard Gordon's Amalgamated Productions. It was a co-production with Butcher's Film Distributors.[1]
The film was made for under £15,000 plus the salaries and expenses of the American participants.[1]
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