Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
- based on novel or book
- nazi
- england
- world war ii
- benito mussolini
- british politics
- eye patch
- norfolk
- 1940s
- winston churchill
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michael Caine
Col. Kurt Steiner
Donald Sutherland
Liam Devlin
Robert Duvall
Col. Max Radl
Jenny Agutter
Molly Prior
- Donald Pleasence — Himmler
- Anthony Quayle — Admiral Canaris
- Jean Marsh — Joanna Grey
- Sven-Bertil Taube — Captain von Neustadt
- John Standing — Father Verecker
- Judy Geeson — Pamela
- Treat Williams — Captain Clark
- Larry Hagman — Colonel Pitts
- Alexei Jawdokimov — Corporal Kuniski
- Richard Wren — Hans Altmann
- Michael Byrne — Karl
- Directed
- John Sturges
- Written
- Tom Mankiewicz
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 394 ratings
- Studio
- Associated General Films, ITC Entertainment
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