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The List of Adrian Messenger: Directed by John Huston. With Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum. A former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.
The List of Adrian Messenger is a 1963 American mystery film directed by John Huston starring Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Clive Brook, Gladys Cooper and Herbert Marshall. It is based on a 1959 novel of the same name written by Philip MacDonald.
Nov 20, 2009 · A retired officer (Academy Award (r) winner George C. Scott) must uncover the identity of a mass murderer who is killing off the potential heirs to a family fortune. The only clues are the names on the list of murdered heir Adrian Messenger.
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Jul 19, 2021 · A 1963 American mystery film directed by John Huston. John Huston's bizarre take on Kind Hearts and Coronets - with stars such as Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra behind make-up for cameo roles - is a gleeful black comedy for most of its running time.
After tea at the estate of the Marquis of Gleneyre, a retired British intelligence officer, Anthony Gethryn, is given a list of 11 names by his good friend, Adrian Messenger, and asked to check the whereabouts of the people listed.
After a plane carrying Messenger is blown up by a mysterious perpetrator, Gethryn determines that the men on the list had been prisoners of war in Burma during World War II -- and that someone...
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A former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list. Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip.
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.
Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) asks his friend, British colonel Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), to check on the whereabouts of the eleven men named on a written list. Not long afterward, the plane on which Messenger is travelling is deliberately blown up.
The List of Adrian Messenger is a 1963 black and white crime thriller about a retired British intelligence officer (George C. Scott) investigating a series of apparently unrelated deaths.
