The Black Windmill
“The ultimate exercise in controlled terror.”
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
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31 people
Michael Caine
Maj. John Tarrant
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Donald Pleasence
Cedric Harper
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Delphine Seyrig
Ceil Burrows
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Alf Chestermann
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Joss Ackland
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Janet Suzman
Alex Tarrant
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Catherine Schell
Lady Melissa Julyan
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Joseph O'Conor
Sir Edward Julyan
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Denis Quilley
Bateson
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Derek Newark
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Edward Hardwicke
Mike McCarthy
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Don Siegel Director · Leigh Vance Screenplay Clive Egleton Author
Budget $1.5M · United States release May 17, 1974 · Produced in United Kingdom, France, United States
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Budget
$1,500,000
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Studio
The Zanuck/Brown Company
Production
United Kingdom · France · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 17, 1974
Theatrical
United Kingdom · July 28, 1974
Theatrical
Denmark
November 15, 1974 · Theatrical
Finland
August 2, 1974 · Theatrical
France
November 20, 1974 · Theatrical
August 1, 2014 · Physical · DVD
Germany
September 6, 1974 · Theatrical
Sweden
September 9, 1974 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
August 3, 2020 · Physical
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