
102 minutes
11/4/1978
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...

Robert Powell
as Richard Hannay

David Warner
as Sir Edmund Appleton

Eric Porter
as Chief Superintendent Lomas

Karen Dotrice
as Alex Mackenzie

John Mills
as Scudder

George Baker
as Sir Walter Bullivant

Ronald Pickup
as Bayliss

Donald Pickering
as Marshall

Timothy West
as Porton

Miles Anderson
as David

Andrew Keir
as Lord Rohan

Robert Flemyng
as Magistrate

William Squire
as Harkness
Paul McDowell
as McLean

David Collings
as Tillotson

John Normington
as Fletcher

John Welsh
as Lord Belthane

Edward de Souza
as Woodville

Tony Steedman
as Admiral
John Grieve
as PC Forbes
Andrew Downie
as Stewart

Donald Bisset
as Renfrew
Derek Anders
as Donald

Oliver Maguire
as Martins

Joan Henley
as Lady Nettleship

Prentis Hancock
as Perryman
Leo Dolan
as Milkman

James Garbutt
as Miller

Artro Morris
as The Scot

Robert Gillespie
as Crombie

Raymond Young
as Guide
Paul Jerricho
as PC Scott

Michael Bilton
as Vicar

Guy Standeven
as General (uncredited)

Jill Goldston
as Nun (uncredited)
James Payne
as Onlooker (uncredited)