Imagine your best friend becomes your enemy—for money. British masculinity melts down in 90 sweaty minutes.
Two ruthless mercenaries break their friendship when one of them changes sides.
Acting
Stanley Baker's simmering resentment carries the whole thing.
Costume
Honor Blackman's wardrobe fights the humidity so she doesn't have to.
Director
Gordon Flemyng
Stanley Baker
Major Harry Grigsby
Alex Cord
Kip Thompson
Honor Blackman
Mrs. Katherine Whiteley
Richard Attenborough
General Charles Whiteley
Rafer Johnson
Joe Jackson
Andrew Keir
Gordon Mackenzie
Ray Brooks
Lt. David Coulson
Julian Glover
Andy Royale
John Thaw
Terry Mitchell
Philip Latham
Adams
Neil Wilson
Wilson
Gerald Sim
Dr. Griffiths
Kenji Takaki
Te Ching
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gordon Flemyng directed this between two Doctor Who films—his entire career was chaotic British genre work.
This captures the exact moment British cinema stopped believing in empire but couldn't stop making movies about it.
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