Embassy (film)

Embassy
Directed by	Gordon Hessler
Written by	John Bird William Fairchild
Based on	Embassy by Stephen Coulter
Produced by	Mel Ferrer
Starring	Richard Roundtree Chuck Connors Marie-José Nat Ray Milland
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Edited by	Willy Kemplen
Music by	Jonathan Hodge
Production companies	Triad Productions Weaver Productions
Distributed by	Hemdale Film Distribution
Release date	2 March 1972
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Embassy is a 1972 British spy thriller film directed by Gordon Hessler, written by John Bird and William Fairchild, and with music scored by Biddu. It is based on the 1969 novel of the same title by Stephen Coulter. It was shot on location in Beirut where the film is set, whereas the novel had been centred in Paris.

The film starred Richard Roundtree as a CIA officer, Ray Milland as an Ambassador, Max von Sydow as a Russian defector taking refuge at the embassy, and Chuck Connors as a KGB assassin posing as a U.S. Air Force officer. Broderick Crawford played the embassy Regional Security Officer, Frank Dunniger, who had to capture and hide the KGB man while the CIA smuggled the defector out of town.

Cast

• Richard Roundtree as Richard 'Dick' Shannon
• Chuck Connors as Kesten
• Marie-José Nat as Laure
• Ray Milland as Ambassador
• Broderick Crawford as Frank Dunniger
• Max von Sydow as Gorenko
• David Bauer as Kadish
• Larry Cross as Gamble
• David Healy as Phelan
• Karl Held as Rylands
• Sarah Marshall as Miss Harding
• Dee Pollock as Stacey
• Leila Buheiry as Leila, Receptionist
• Gail Clymer as Switchboard Operator
• Edmond Hannania as First Man in Black
• Saladin Nader as Roget
• Peter Smith as Cypher Clerk
• Dean Turner as Clem Gelber

Bibliography

• James McKay. Ray Milland: The Films, 1929-1984. McFarland, 2020.

External links

• Embassy at IMDb
• http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Embassy_1972_rev.html
• http://www.bcult.it/scheda.asp?Id=12831