And Millions Will Die
...And Millions Will Die! (aka "And Millions Die") is a 1973 Australian television film directed by Leslie H. Martinson. It was shot in Hong Kong.
| ...And Millions Will Die! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Thriller |
| Written by | Michael Fisher |
| Directed by | Leslie H. Martinson |
| Starring | Richard Basehart Susan Strasberg Leslie Nielsen Joseph Furst Rowena Wallace |
| Music by | Laurie Lewis |
| Country of origin | Australia United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Charles B. Walnizer |
| Producer | Mende Brown |
| Production locations | Hong Kong Sydney |
| Cinematography | Paul Onorato |
| Editor | Richard Hindley |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Production companies | Australian Amalgamated Pictures Allied Artists Pictures |
| Distributor | CBS |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
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Premise
Nazi war criminal Franz Kessler (Joseph Furst), a wealthy germ warfare expert living in Hong Kong, plants a gas-filled time bomb under the city sewers.
Cast
- Richard Basehart as Dr. Douglas Pruitt
- Susan Strasberg as Heather Kessler
- Peter Sumner as Dixie Hart
- Joseph Furst as Franz Kessler
- Alwyn Kurts as Dr. Mitchell
- Shariff Medan as Postman
- Leslie Nielsen as Jack Gallagher
Production
The film was a feature-length pilot for a proposed television series called "E-Force", about a crack environmental detective unit trying to track down those responsible for a poison gas attack.[1] The villain Kessler was played by Viennese-born actor Joseph Furst, who was a regular on Australian TV and films. Make-up artist Patricia Glassup is the mother of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
References
- Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p6
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