The Quiller Memorandum

Nov 10, 1966

1h 44m

★ 5.8

He played the most dangerous game in Europe, and he played it alone.

Overview

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

The Rank Organisation

Ivan Foxwell Productions

The Quiller Memorandum Trailers

Cast

Quiller

George Segal

Pol

Alec Guinness

Oktober

Max von Sydow

Inge Lindt

Senta Berger

Gibbs

George Sanders

Weng

Robert Helpmann

Rushington

Robert Flemyng

Hengel

Peter Carsten

Grauber

Ernst Walder

Headmistress

Edith Schneider

Oktober's Man

Philip Madoc

Oktobers Gefolgsmann

Herbert Fux

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