An American geologist accidentally discovers oil in Turkish mountains. An assassin is sent by someone to eliminate him because of that. He boards a passenger boat to try to escape. However, one of the passengers is the assassin.
Director: Daniel Mann.
Stars: Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Scott Marlowe, Ian McShane, Joseph Wiseman, Shelley Winters, Stanley Holloway, Donald Pleasence, Vincent Price, Jackie Cooper.
GREAT upload. Had it on my list to ask for when your Request section re-opens. Been looking it for quite some time!
Entertaining if predictable spy melodrama based on the thriller written by Ambler in 1940. There, the hero is an English arms specialist who finds himself embroiled within a mad world spies & counterspies. This is a more authentic version of the Ambler than was the original 1943 film by Orson Welles which is much more interesting despite being brutally re-edited by RKO. Still, a pretty rare film to see with a great stellar which does not always play up to the material. Both Waterson & Mimieux seen ill-cast as what passes for romantic leads. But the supporting cast is wonderful.