When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned to the job discovers there may be more to the hit than meets the eye.
Acting
Ian Hendry's haunted eyes doing 90% of the emotional lifting.
Direction
Crane squeezes maximum dread from office corridors and parked cars.
Production
Authentic Whitehall-to-suburbia locations that reek of classified melancholy.
Director
Peter Crane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ian Hendry was nearly Bond in 1962; this role feels like his bitter alternate-universe audition.
Released during the height of British spy scandals (Philby, etc.), it weaponizes real national anxiety.
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