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Director: Basil Dearden
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From Time Out Film Guide
An early script collaboration from William Goldman produces a nicely understated satire on the spy movie boom, in which the Foreign Office despatch Hawkins and Robertson (old wartime buddies, not very up on the espionage thing) to kidnap a young Arab prince for his own protection prior to his coronation. The plot convolutions of Victor Canning's novel Castle Minerva are given a wryly cynical edge, and Dearden copes surprisingly well with the spectacle.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Basil Dearden
Producer: Michael Relph
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Christopher Witty, Bill Fraser, Michel Piccoli, Tutte Lemkow, Charles Gray, John Le Mesurier full cast
Duration: 102 mins
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