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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1968 British film by Val Guest}}<br />
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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Assignment K<br />
| image = Assignment K FilmPoster.jpeg<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption =<br />
| director = [[Val Guest]]<br />
| producer = Maurice Foster<br> Ben Arbeid<br />
| screenplay = Val Guest<br>[[Bill Strutton]]<br>Maurice Foster<br />
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Department K]]''<br>1964 novel|[[Hartley Howard]]}}<br />
| narrator =<br />
| starring = [[Stephen Boyd]]<br>[[Camilla Sparv]]<br>[[Michael Redgrave]]<br>[[Leo McKern]]<br>[[Robert Hoffmann]]<br>[[Jeremy Kemp]]<br />
| music = [[Basil Kirchin]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Ken Hodges (cinematographer)|Ken Hodges]]<br />
| editing = Jack Slade<br />
| color_process = [[Technicolor]]<br />
| studio = Gildor Productions<br>Mazurka Productions Ltd.<br />
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br />
| released = {{film date|df=yes|1968|2|18|}}<br />
| runtime = 97 minutes<br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross =<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Assignment K''''' (also known as '''''Department K''''') is a 1968 British [[spy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Val Guest]] in [[Techniscope]] and starring [[Stephen Boyd]], [[Camilla Sparv]], [[Michael Redgrave]], [[Leo McKern]], [[Robert Hoffmann]] and [[Jeremy Kemp]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Assignment K |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150060491 |access-date=6 May 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Assignment K (1968)|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/assignment-k/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715071915/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/assignment-k/|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 July 2012|publisher=Yahoo Movies|accessdate=31 May 2012}} </ref> It was written by Guest, [[Bill Strutton]] and Maurice Foster based on the 1964 novel ''[[Department K]]'' by [[Hartley Howard]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
A British [[spy]] has his cover blown, leading to the [[East German]] [[Stasi]] kidnapping his girlfriend to try to extract information about his [[double agents]]' activities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Assignment K (1968)|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/27468/assignment-k|publisher=TCM|access-date=31 May 2012}}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Stephen Boyd]] as Philip Scott<br />
* [[Camilla Sparv]] as Toni Peters<br />
* [[Michael Redgrave]] as Harris<br />
* [[Leo McKern]] as Smith<br />
* [[Robert Hoffmann]] as Paul Spiegler<br />
* [[Jeremy Kemp]] as Hal<br />
* [[Jane Merrow]] as Martine<br />
* [[Carl Möhner]] as Inspector (credited as Carl Moehner)<br />
* [[Vivi Bach]] as Erika Herschel<br />
* [[Werner Peters]] as Kramer<br />
* Dieter Geissler as Kurt<br />
* [[John Alderton]] as George<br />
* [[Jan Werich]] as Dr. Spiegler<br />
* [[David Healy (actor)|David Healy]] as David<br />
* [[Ursula Howells]] as Estelle<br />
* [[Basil Dignam]] as Howlett<br />
* [[Geoffrey Bayldon]] as The Boffin<br />
* [[Joachim Hansen (actor)|Joachim Hansen]] as Heinrich Herschel<br />
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==Production==<br />
Val Guest said "We shot it all out in Kitzbuhel, great cast: we had my Leo McKern again, and Michael Redgrave who was a very sick man, had terrible difficulties with his lines... Stephen [Boyd] was a wonderful person, a great giggler, a great professional, very nice guy."<ref name="val">{{cite web|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/val-guest|website=British Entertainment History Project|first=Roy|last=Fowler|date=1988|title=Interview with Val Guest}}</ref><br />
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== Critical reception ==<br />
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Routine spy thriller, unimaginatively scripted and directed. The entirely conventional settings include the inevitable night clubs, expensive hotels and ski slopes (where the travelling matte is much in evidence). Stephen Boyd is bland and wooden as the toy tycoon/spy; Camilla Sparv has little to do but look alluring; and Leo McKern and Michael Redgrave appear fleetingly and to little effect. The plot meanders from dull beginning to dull end with nothing of interest in between."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1968 |title=Assignment K |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305826629 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=35 |issue=408 |page=39 |id={{ProQuest|1305826629}} }}</ref><br />
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[[Leslie Halliwell]] said: "Dreary espionage thriller, instantly forgettable, and only watchable at odd moments while it's on."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Halliwell |first=Leslie |title=Halliwell's Film Guide |publisher=Paladin |year=1989 |isbn=0586088946 |edition=7th |location=London |page=56}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of British films of 1968]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0062683}}<br />
* {{TCMDb title|id=27468}}<br />
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