And Millions Will Die

...And Millions Will Die!
Genre Thriller
Written by Michael Fisher
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Starring Richard Basehart
Susan Strasberg
Leslie Nielsen
Joseph Furst
Rowena Wallace
Music by Laurie Lewis
Country of origin Australia
US
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Charles B. Walnizer
Producer(s) Mende Brown
Location(s) Hong Kong
Sydney
Cinematography Paul Onorato
Editor(s) Richard Hindley
Running time 93 min.
Production company(s) Australian Amalgamated Pictures
Allied Artists Pictures
Distributor CBS
Release
Original network CBS
Original release
  • 1973 (1973)

...And Millions Will Die! (aka "And Millions Die") is a 1973 Australian television film shot in Hong Kong directed by Leslie H. Martinson.

Plot

The film is about a Nazi war criminal named Franz Kessler (Joseph Furst), a wealthy germ warfare expert living in Hong Kong, who plants a gas-filled time bomb under the city sewers.

Cast

Production

The film was a feature-length pilot for a proposed television series called "E-Force", about a crack environmental detective unit trying to track down those responsible for a poison gas attack.[1] The villain Kessler was played by Viennese-born actor Joseph Furst, who was a regular on Australian TV and films. Make-up artist Patricia Glassup is the mother of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.

References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p6


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