Assignment Redhead (1956)
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
- Date of release
- 1956-10-01
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Maclean Rogers
Casting
- Richard Denning — Major Gregory Keen
- Carole Mathews — Hedy Bergner
- Ronald Adam — Scammel / Dumetrius
- Danny Green — Yotti Blum
- Brian Worth — Capt. Peter Ridgeway
- Hugh Moxey — Sgt. Tom Coutts
- Peter Swanwick — Monsieur Paul Bonnet
- Elwyn Brook-Jones — Digby Mitchel
- Ronald Leigh-Hunt — Col. Julian Fentriss, M.I.5.
- Robert Vincent O'Neil — Capt. Hank Godowski
- Paul Hardtmuth — Dr. Buchmann
- Bill Nagy — Marzotti
Interesting facts
Assignment Redhead is a 1956 British second feature ('B') crime thriller film written and directed by Maclean Rogers. It was based on the novel Requiem for a Redhead by Lindsay Hardy.
Production
The film was the first of seven made by Richard Gordon's Amalgamated Productions. It was a co-production with Butcher's Film Distributors.
The film was made for under £15,000 plus the salaries and expenses of the American participants.
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