Directed by:
Sheldon ReynoldsScreenplay:
Sheldon ReynoldsComposer:
William LavaCast:
Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman, Peter van Eyck, Oskar Homolka, Kent Smith, Philip Ober, Fifi D'Orsay, Cynthia O'Neal (more)Plots(1)
Richard Cutter isn't like most insurance investigators. Instead of being equipped with actuarial tables, he's armed with a handgun and a dismissive wit. "Why do you carry a gun?" asks the exec hiring him to probe a case of multimillion-dollar insurance fraud. "It's more effective than a hammer," Cutter replies. Patrick O'Neal brings unshakeable sangfroid to the role of Cutter in this zigzag tale of corporate cover-up and death that's less Bond-like in its pacing and style and more akin to the methodical maneuvering of Harry Palmer. Joan Hackett, Herbert Lom, Oscar Homolka and John Gielgud join O'Neal for moves and countermoves filmed in scenic Switzerland by Sheldon Reynolds (TV's Foreign Intrigue). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Patrick O'Neal
USA
Best movies:
King Rat (1965)
Columbo (1971) (series)
The Way We Were (1973)
Joan Hackett
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1968)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
John Gielgud
UK
Best movies:
The Elephant Man (1980)
Gandhi (1982)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV movie)
Herbert Lom
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Spartacus (1960)
Eric Portman
UK
Best movies:
Freud (1962)
The Bedford Incident (1965)
The Magic Box (1951)
Peter van Eyck
German Empire
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Oskar Homolka
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Sabotage (1936)
Kent Smith
USA
Best movies:
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Sayonara (1957)
A Distant Trumpet (1964)
Philip Ober
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Fifi D'Orsay
Canada
Best movies:
What a Way to Go! (1964)
Cynthia O'Neal
Best movies:
Wolf (1994)
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Q & A (1990)
Leon Greene
UK
Best movies:
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Masada (1981) (series)
London Conspiracy (1974) - a.f.
Martin Miller
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Third Man (1949)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
The Pink Panther (1963)
Charles H. Radilak
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
36 Hours (1965)
Ship of Fools (1965)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Walter Janovitz
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
36 Hours (1965)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Our Man Flint (1966)
Éva Szörényi
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
A Fine Madness (1966)
An American Rhapsody (2001)