And Millions Will Die

And Millions Will Die
Also known as	...And Millions Will Die!
Genre	Thriller
Written by	Michael Fisher
Directed by	Leslie H. Martinson
Starring	Richard Basehart Susan Strasberg Leslie Nielsen Joseph Furst Rowena Wallace
Music by	Laurie Lewis
Country of origin	Australia United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Charles B. Walnizer
Producer	Mende Brown
Production locations	Hong Kong Sydney
Cinematography	Paul Onorato
Editor	Richard Hindley
Running time	93 min.
Production companies	Australian Amalgamated Pictures Allied Artists Pictures
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	1973 (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

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

• Richard Basehart as Dr. Douglas Pruitt
• Susan Strasberg as Heather Kessler
• Peter Sumner as Dixie Hart
• Joseph Furst as Franz Kessler
• Alwyn Kurts as Dr. Mitchell
• Shariff Medan as Postman
• Leslie Nielsen as Jack Gallagher
• Rowena Wallace as Maggi Christopher
• Willie Fennell as Sid Broomberg
• Les Foxcroft as Henshaw

Production

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

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

External links

• And Millions Will Die at IMDb