The Executioner (1970)
Every day he lives, somebody else dies!
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
- Date of release
- 1970-09-06
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Thriller
- Director
- Sam Wanamaker
Casting
- George Peppard — John Shay
- Joan Collins — Sarah Booth
- Judy Geeson — Polly Bendel
- Oskar Homolka — Racovsky
- Charles Gray — Vaughan Jones
- Nigel Patrick — Colonel Scott
- Keith Michell — Adam Booth
- George Baker — Philip Crawford
- Alexander Scourby — Prof. Parker
- Peter Bull — Butterfield
- Ernest Clark — Roper
- Peter Dyneley — Balkov
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Greece
The Executioner is a 1970 British Cold War neo noir spy thriller film directed by Sam Wanamaker in Panavision and starring George Peppard as secret agent John Shay who suspects his colleague Adam Booth, played by Keith Michell, is a double agent. It was produced by Charles H. Schneer for Columbia Pictures and filmed in Panavision and Eastmancolor.
Production
It was one of a series of medium budgeted genre pictures Peppard made around this time.
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