Assignment K

1968

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

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IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 427 427

spy

Plot summary

Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.

Director

Val Guest Photo
Val Guest

Top cast

Leo McKern Photo
Leo McKern as Smith
Mia Nadasi Photo
Mia Nadasi as German nurse
John Alderton Photo
John Alderton as George Innes
Jeremy Kemp Photo
Jeremy Kemp as Hal
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892.51 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 1
1.62 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mariannealindsell 7 / 10

Not as Tame as Some Think

A surprisingly stylish spy flick, based in Munich and London.It has a few twists (some of them predictable) but the aspect that intrigued me most was the information exchange.It's all done with tremendous subtlety, and you could easily watch the entire film and miss most of the exchanges.I had a similar experience with "Funeral in Berlin".That's what I like about a spy film, when you can watch it superficially and miss what is really going on. So the film becomes a shill for real life spying, where the public see relative normality, but the spies, though present in the normal life of the public around them, are functioning on a completely different level.I would have to watch this film several times to pick out and understand all of the communications.The film was made in 1968, and is very much of that era (which I like).
Reviewed by wilvram 5 / 10

Subdued spy thriller

The main problem with this slow-moving spy film is that it can't make up its mind whether to aim for the world of James Bond or Michael Caine's Harry Palmer movies. Stephen Boyd's spy, a relaxed genial man-about-town figure in the style of Roger Moore and his immediate associate, a rather shabby civil servant operating from an empty office, played by Michael Redgrave, seem to belong in two separate films. And 'Q' would certainly look down his nose at the home-made bomb his counterpart, played by Geoffrey Bayldon, comes up with here.The usually reliable Val Guest has to take most of the blame, both for the uneven direction and contribution to a script that has pretensions to being taken seriously at times, but is nowhere strong enough to be. As he had just been worked into the ground shaping, with some success, the chaos that was CASINO ROYALE, he was probably a little jaded with the genre. He also wastes excellent character actors Jeremy Kemp and Leo McKern, though the latter does make an impression against the odds. The revelations at the finale lack any impact. In fact a much bleaker ending had been filmed, with Camilla Sparv's Toni being thrown into the river and drowned, her stunt-double being none other than the future star of saucy seventies' comedies, Sue Longhurst.I quite enjoyed the 1960's ambiance, including the relationship between Boyd and the alluring Sparv, set against the glamorous background of Kitzbuhel ski resort. Much of it is quite engaging, but ultimately neither exciting nor memorable.
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