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by Tony Williamson
Starring Clifford Evans, Anthony Valentine
with Alexandra Bastedo and Brian Peck

A Russian bomber jettisons two nuclear warheads just outside Bulgaria. Sir Iain is ordered to photograph the missiles before they are retrieved. But they are held in a maximum security police headquarters at the fishing village of Borku, and there is less than 24 hours to act.

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Williamson
Series devised by:
David Proudfoot
Series devised by:
Bill Hays
Lighting:
John Dixon
Script Editor:
Colin Free
Designer:
Tony Snoaden
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Viktors Ritelis
Pilot:
Godfrey Jackman
Co-pilot:
Jeremy Anthony
Navigator:
Vernon Morris
Culliford:
Brian Peck
Sir Iain Dalzell:
Clifford Evans
Philip West:
Anthony Valentine
Diana Dalzell:
Alexandra Bastedo
Kaldor:
George Pravda
Gorio:
Norman Florence
First policeman:
James Hall
Prodnik:
Nik Zaran
Second policeman:
Dave Carter
First monitor:
Drew Wood
Second monitor:
Robin Browne

Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past ten years from the movie capital stars Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards Jr, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell

Europe in the gay, turbulent twenties - the setting for Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about a promising young psychiatrist who gives up his practice to marry a wealthy neurotic ex-patient without realising the risks involved.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Ivan Moffat
Based on the novel by:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Producer:
Henry T. Weinstein
Director:
Henry King
Nicole Diver:
Jennifer Jones
Dick Diver:
Jason Robards Jr.
Baby Warren:
Joan Fontaine
Abe North:
Tom Ewell
Tommy Barban:
Cesare Danova
Rosemary Hoyt:
Jill St John

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