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When Eight Bells Toll is a 1971 action film directed by Étienne Périer and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, and Nathalie Delon. Set in Scotland, it is based upon Scottish author Alistair MacLean's 1965 novel of the same name.
An English secret agent (Anthony Hopkins) links hijackings of gold bullion to a Greek tycoon and an underwater cave.
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- Etienne Périer
- PG
- Anthony Hopkins
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Because gold bullion is being pirated from ships off the coast of Scotland's western highlands. Calvert, tough, disrespectful of authority, as unintimidated by Naval bureaucracy as he is by killers, is sent in undercover to investigate.
When Eight Bells Toll is a first-person narrative novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean and published in 1966. It marked MacLean's return after a three-year gap, following the publication of Ice Station Zebra (1963), during which time he had run several restaurants.
- Alistair Maclean
- 1966
Off the coast of Scotland, British Naval secret service agent Philip Calvert sneaks onboard the British ship Nantsville to make contact with two undercover agents only to find the men have been murdered. Days earlier, British intelligence head Sir Arthur Arnold-Jones reluctantly assigned Calvert and his intelligence partner, Roy Hunslett, to ...
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Overview. In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland. Alistair MacLean. Novel, Screenplay. Étienne Périer.