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by Ray Jenkins
Starring Clifford Evans, Anthony Valentine
with Alexandra Bastedo and Brian Peck

Two agents from a spy-training centre are chosen for a 'suicide mission.' Are they trustworthy? And more important for Sir Iain - is the man who trained them?

Contributors

Writer:
Ray Jenkins
Series devised by:
David Proudfoot
Series devised by:
Bill Hays
Lighting:
Peter Catlett
Script Editor:
Geoffrey Tetlow
Designer:
Tony Snoaden
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Viktors Ritelis
Zeta Baker:
Hildegard Neil
Nelson:
Michael Lynch
Lambert:
Jonathan Newth
Culliford:
Brian Peck
Sir Iain Dalzell:
Clifford Evans
Philip West:
Anthony Valentine
Diana Dalzell:
Alexandra Bastedo
Thornton:
Gil Sutherland
Melton:
Noel Johnson
Policeman:
Robin Browne
Stanley Kerr:
Harry Oatten

Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past 10 years from the movie capital stars William Holden, Clifton Webb with France Nuyen

Communist armies advancing through China in the late 1940s capture and desecrate a mission station.
Leo McCarey's anti-Communist film produced in 1961 shows the agonising decisions that face an elderly priest (Clifton Webb) and his young successor (William Holden) when they find their mission under Red control.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Claude Binyon
Screenplay/Produced and directed by:
Leo McCarey
Based on a story by:
Pearl Buck
Father O'Banion:
William Holden
Father Bovard:
Clifton Webb
Siu-Lan:
France Nuyen
Ho-San:
Weaver Lee
Sister Agnes:
Athene Seyler
Kuznietsky:
Martin Benson

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