The Quiller Memorandum
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)


The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

Budget (GBP) 0
Distribution Company

National General Corporation   (Production Company | Est. Unknown)

Release Date 10 November 1966
Black and White No
Regional Release No
Release Notes UK 10 November 1966 (London) (premiere);
USA 15 December 1966;
UK 13 January 1967;
Sweden 23 January 1967;
Ireland 10 February 1967;
West Germany 24 February 1967;
Japan 25 February 1967;
France 3 March 1967;
Norway 25 March 1967;
Denmark 17 May 1967;
Belgium 22 June 1967 (Gent);
Finland 6 October 1967;
Uruguay 10 November 1967;
Spain 22 January 1968;
Mexico 16 May 1968.
Description European spy thriller, adapted from Adam Hall's 1965 novel 'The Berlin Memorandum' by Pinter. After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, special agent Quiller (George Segal) is sent to Berlin to investigate. There, he begins an affair with Inge Lindt (Senta Berger), a school teacher. However, their lives are put in danger after Quiller is kidnapped and taken to Phoenix's headquarters, where he meets Oktober (Max von Sydow), the mysterious leader of the group.
Language English

Linked Productions

No linked Production have been added to this production record yet.

Linked People

Michael Anderson (1920 - 2018)

Creative | Director


Adam Hall (1920 - 1995)

Creative | Author (original novel)

Adam Hall was the pen name of Elleston Trevor (born Trevor Dudley-Smith).


Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)

Creative | Screenplay


Ivan Foxwell

Production | Producer


John Barry

Creative | Music


Erwin Hillier

Creative | Director Of Photography


Frederick Wilson

Creative | Film Editor


Weston Drury Jr.

Creative | Casting


Maurice Carter

Creative | Art Director


Arthur Taksen

Creative | Set Decoration


Carl Toms

Creative | Costume Designer


W. T. Partleton

Creative | Makeup Artist


Stella Rivers

Creative | Hairstylist


Bob Lawrence

Creative | Makeup Artist


Sydney Streeter

Production | Production supervisor


Bernard Williams

Production | Unit manager


Clive Reed

Creative | Assistant Director


Peter Anderson

Creative | Third Assistant Director


Terence A. Clegg

Creative | Second Assistant Director


Jack Maxstead

Creative | Associate Art Director


Arthur Taksen

Creative | Set Dresser


Ferdinand Bellan

Creative | Scenic Artist


Alan Roderick-Jones

Technical | Draughtsman


Brian Ackland-Snow

Technical | Draughtsman


John Aldred

Technical | Sound Recordist


Archie Ludski

Technical | Sound Editor


C. C. Stevens

Technical | Sound Recordist


Arthur Cox

Technical | Sound Editor


Graham V. Hartstone

Technical | Sound camera


Jim Perry

Technical | Boom operator


David Stephenson

Technical | Assistant boom operator


Arthur Beavis

Technical | Special effects


Les Bowie

Technical | Special effects


Jimmy Spoard

Technical | Grip


H. A. R. Thomson

Technical | Second unit cameraman


John Winbolt

Technical | Camera operator


John Crawford

Technical | Focus puller


Ian Jeays

Technical | Still Photographer


John Shinerock

Technical | Focus puller


Ernie Farrer

Technical | Wardrobe master


Dulcie Midwinter

Technical | Wardrobe mistress


Ian Crafford

Technical | Assistant editor


Colin Miller

Technical | Second assistant editor


Vincent Winter

Technical | Second assistant editor


John Barry

Creative | Conductor


Sidney Margo

Production | Music contractor


Joan Kirk

Production | Continuity


Derek Coyte

Production | Publicist


Bob Herrington

Production | Unit Publicist


Janet Turner

Production | Production secretary


Charles Van der Goor

Technical | Sound maintenance


Linked Organisations

Rank Organisation (Distributor | Est. Unknown)

Ivan Foxwell Productions (Production Company | Est. Unknown)

Paramount Pictures (Distributor | Est. Unknown)

National General Corporation (Production Company | Est. Unknown)

Characters

Quiller (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: George Segal (1934)

Pol (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000)

Oktober (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Max von Sydow (1929)

Inge (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Performer: Senta Berger (1941)

Man A (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: John Rees (1927 - 1994)

Assistant (The Quiller Memorandum) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Performer: Brigitte Laufer

Barman (1) (The Quiller Memorandum) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Carl Duering

Barman (2) (The Quiller Memorandum) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Hans Schwarz

Doctor (The Quiller Memorandum) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Paul Hansard

Grauber (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Ernst Walder (1927)

Hassler (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Gunter Meisner (1926 - 1994)

Hengel (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Peter Carsten (1928 - 2012)

Hughes (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Claus Tinney (1936)

Man B (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Philip Madoc (1934 - 2012)

Man C (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Harry Brooks Jr. (1936 - 2008)

Man F (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Bernard Egan (1933)

Man H (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Sean Arnold (1941)

Man I (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Janos Kurucz

Man J (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Nikolaus Dutsch

Man K (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Peter Lang

Man L (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Herbert Fux

Man M (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Peer Goldmann

Man N (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Malte Petzel

Man O (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Axel Anderson

Man P (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Wolfgang Priewe

Nagel (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Vas Delahunt

Nightporter (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Philo Hauser

Rushington (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Robert Flemyng (1912 - 1995)

School Porter (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Konrad Thoms

Weng (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Robert Helpmann (1909 - 1986)

Pupil (Age: Not Specified)

Performer: John Moulder-Brown

Dorfmann (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Victor Beaumont (1912 - 1977)

Frau Schroeder (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Performer: Edith Schneider (1919 - 2012)

Gibbs (The Quiller Memorandum) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: George Sanders (1906 - 1972)

Kenneth Lindsay Jones (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Herbert Stass (1919 - 1999)

Linked Awards

No award have been added to this production record yet.

Linked Places

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath

Studio.


Resources

Philip T. Hartung, 'The Quiller Memorandum', Commonweal, 3 February 1967, p. 489 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: http://www.unz.com/print/Commonweal-1967feb03-00488/

Friedrich Luft, 'Where Have All New Nazis Gone?' Variety Weekly, 8 March 1967 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Joseph Morgenstern, 'Breaking the Bond', Newsweek, 26 December 1966, p. 72 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

New York Times, 16 December 1966, sec. 16, p. 59 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Time, 23 December 1966, p. 75 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Life, 27 January 1967, p. 15 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

America, 4 February 1967, p. 194 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

The Quiller Memorandum, Trailer (URL)

Type: Trailer

External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iveB1P_FPT0

Original trailer.

Interview with actor George Segal (URL)

Type: Interview

External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWadeNECkQA

Henderson's Film Industries interview (part 1)

Interview with actor George Segal (URL)

Type: Interview

External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2j0-iiY6rQ

Henderson's Film Industries interview (part 2)

Interview with director Michael Anderson (URL)

Type: Interview

External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYfmNz6NKqs

Henderson's Film Industries interview

Interview with composer John Barry (URL)

Type: Interview

External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq-qByKI7Bg

Henderson's Film Industries interview

Sources

BFI Screenonline

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/483119/index.html

URL

Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process

Steven H. Gale, Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)

Academic book

Contains chapters on each of Harold Pinter's filmed screenplays and includes a bibliography of reviews of films up to 1999.