And Millions Will Die

...And Millions Will Die!
Directed by	Leslie Martinson
Produced by	Mende Brown
Written by	Michael Fisher
Starring	Richard Basehart Susan Strasberg Leslie Nielsen Joseph Furst Rowena Wallace
Music by	Laurie Lewis
Cinematography	Paul Onorato
Edited by	Richard Hindley
Production company	Australian Amalgamated Pictures APA Leisure Time International Limited
Distributed by	Network 9 Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Release dates	1973 (1973)
Running time	75 mins
Country	Australia US
Language	English

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

Plot

The film is about a Nazi war criminal named Franz Kessler (Joseph Furst), a wealthy germ warfare expert living in Hong Kong, who 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

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. 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.

External links

• And Millions Will Die at IMDB