Dirk Bogarde
Sebastian
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Sebastian (also known as Mister Sebastian) is a 1968 British spy film directed by David Greene, produced by Michael Powell, Herbert Brodkin and Gerry Fisher, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. [1] The film is based on a story by Leo Marks, and Gerald Vaughan-Hughes wrote the screenplay. [2][3]
Sebastian: Directed by David Greene. With Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lilli Palmer, John Gielgud. During the Cold War, the chief of a British intelligence code-breaking section falls in love with a new employee and shields an old co-worker accused of Communist affiliations from the wrath of the security branch.
- (712)
- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- David Greene
- 1969-01-29
Sebastian. Early in the production of “Sebastian,” somebody should have called a meeting to figure out what the movie was about. I guess nobody did. What we are stuck with, then, is a movie that moves confidently in three directions, arriving nowhere with a splendid show of style.
Sebastian (1968) NR, 1 hr 40 min. RATE MOVIE. On his way to an awards ceremony, Mr. Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) runs into Becky Howard (Susannah York) on the street, and although they get off to a rough start, he ends up offering her a job when she recognizes his name backwards.
- (89)
- David Greene
Sebastian, a former Oxford professor, heads the all-female decoding staff of British Intelligence. One day he has a chance meeting with young Becky Howard and is so impressed by her mental agility that he offers her a job deciphering codes used by foreign agents.
- David Greene, Gordon Gilbert
- Dirk Bogarde
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
Colourful, pungently witty tale of conservative Oxford professor Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) enlisting hot-tempered, swinging interior decorator Becky Howard (Susannah York) into his all-female Secret Service code-breaking department and getting more than he bargained for (dosed with LSD by ex-girlfriend Janet Munro's Soviet spy friends).
