Assignment Redhead
| 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 |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Rank Film Organisation (UK) |
Release date |
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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 to retrieve twelve million dollars in counterfeit cash. With the aide of his confederate Hedy, a redheaded cabaret singer, he covers his tracks and kills one passenger retrieving an identifying photograph and frames another man for the murder. American Major Keen is working attached to British intelligence and pursues him. Keen falls Hedy, who is under Dumetrius's control, compromising the investigation.
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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