Assignment K
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.[1][2] The film was based on the 1964 novel Department K by Hartley Howard.
Assignment K
Val Guest
Bill Strutton
Maurice Foster
Department K
1964 novel
by Hartley Howard
Maurice Foster
Ben Arbeid
Jack Slade
Mazurka Productions Ltd.
- 18 February 1968
97 minutes
United Kingdom
English
Plot[edit]
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.[3]
Critical reception[edit]
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."[5]