And Millions Will Die

And Millions Will Die
Also known as...And Millions Will Die!
GenreThriller
Written byMichael Fisher
Directed byLeslie H. Martinson
StarringRichard Basehart
Susan Strasberg
Leslie Nielsen
Joseph Furst
Rowena Wallace
Music byLaurie Lewis
Country of originAustralia
United States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerCharles B. Walnizer
ProducerMende Brown
Production locationsHong Kong
Sydney
CinematographyPaul Onorato
EditorRichard Hindley
Running time93 min.
Production companiesAustralian Amalgamated Pictures
Allied Artists Pictures
Original release
NetworkCBS
Release1973 (1973)

...And Millions Will Die! (aka "And Millions Die") is a 1973 Australian television film directed by Leslie H. Martinson. It was shot in Hong Kong.

Premise

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Nazi war criminal Franz Kessler (Joseph Furst), a wealthy germ warfare expert living in Hong Kong, plants a gas-filled time bomb under the city sewers.

Cast

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Production

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The film was a feature-length pilot for a proposed television series called "E-Force", about a crack environmental detective unit trying to track down those responsible for a poison gas attack.[1] The villain Kessler was played by Viennese-born actor Joseph Furst, who was a regular on Australian TV and films. Make-up artist Patricia Glassup is the mother of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.

References

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  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p6
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