Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
Cast
Rod Taylor
Scobie Malone
Christopher Plummer
Sir James Quentin
Lilli Palmer
Sheila Quentin
Camilla Sparv
Lisa Pretorius
Daliah Lavi
Maria Cholon
Clive Revill
Joseph
Lee Montague
Denzil
Calvin Lockhart
Jamaica
Derren Nesbitt
Pallain
Edric Connor
Julius
Burt Kwouk
Pham Chimh
Russell Napier
Leeds
Ken Wayne
Ferguson
Franchot Tone
Ambassador Townsend
Paul Grist
Coburn
Charles Tingwell
Jacko
Leo McKern
Mr Flannery, Premier of New South Wales (uncredited)
Gerald Sim
Airport Official (uncredited)
Tony Selby
Cameraman (uncredited)
James Payne
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Crew
Ralph Thomas
Director
Wilfred Greatorex
Screenplay
Jon Cleary
Novel
Ernest Hosler
Editor
Ernest Steward
Director of Photography
Nicolas Hippisley-Coxe
Third Assistant Director
Simon Relph
Assistant Director
Selig J. Seligman
Executive Producer
Betty E. Box
Producer
James H. Ware
Associate Producer
Tony Woollard
Production Design
James Bawden
Camera Operator
Yvonne Caffin
Costume Coordinator
Stella Rivers
Hairdresser
W.T. Partleton
Makeup Artist
Geoffrey Rodway
Makeup Artist
Don Sharpe
Sound Editor
Otto Snel
Sound Mixer
Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Recordist
Dudley Messenger
Sound Recordist
Georges Delerue
Original Music Composer
Peter Young
Set Dresser
Gladys Goldsmith
Continuity
Donald Toms
Production Manager
