And Millions Will Die
| ...And Millions Will Die! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Leslie Martinson |
| Produced by | Mende Brown |
| Written by | Michael Fisher |
| Starring |
Richard Basehart Susan Strasberg Leslie Nielsen Joseph Furst Rowena Wallace |
| Music by | Laurie Lewis |
| Cinematography | Paul Onorato |
| Edited by | Richard Hindley |
Production company |
Australian Amalgamated Pictures APA Leisure Time International Limited |
| Distributed by |
Network 9 Allied Artists Pictures Corporation |
Release dates | 1973 |
Running time | 75 mins |
| Country |
Australia US |
| Language | English |
...And Millions Will Die! (aka "And Millions Die") is a 1973 Australian television film shot in Hong Kong directed by Leslie H. Martinson.
Plot
The film is about a Nazi war criminal named Franz Kessler (Joseph Furst), a wealthy germ warfare expert living in Hong Kong, who plants a gas-filled time bomb under the city sewers.
Cast
- Richard Basehart as Dr. Douglas Pruitt
- Susan Strasberg as Heather Kessler
- Peter Sumner as Dixie Hart
- Joseph Furst as Franz Kessler
- Alwyn Kurts as Dr. Mitchell
- Shariff Medan as Postman
- Leslie Nielsen as Jack Gallagher
Production
The film was a feature-length pilot for a proposed television series called "E-Force", about a crack environmental detective unit trying to track down those responsible for a poison gas attack.[1] The villain Kessler was played by Viennese-born actor Joseph Furst, who was a regular on Australian TV and films. Make-up artist Patricia Glassup is the mother of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
References
- ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p6
External links
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