And Millions Will Die

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And Millions Will Die
Also known as	...And Millions Will Die!
Genre	Thriller
Written by	Michael Fisher
Directed by	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 (

), 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

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

External links

• And Millions Will Die at
  IMDb