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Human Factor (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 115 mins

  • Director: Otto Preminger
  • Writer: Graham Greene; Tom Stoppard
  • Producer: Paul Crosfield; Chris Dillinger

CGiii Comment

When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service's African section, is seen taking a file with him -to meet his girlfriend Cynthia- the brass fears he may be the leak to Moskow, and allows Dr. Percival to terminate the 'risk factor' by poisoning to avoid a scandal.

In fact Davis's desk chief, Maurice Castle, is the double agent since the South African communists helped him smuggle out his black lover Sarah M., meanwhile his wife and mother of schoolboy Sam, to force him to cooperate with the Apartheid government. When Cornelius Muller, the South African official who failed to get him in Pretoria's power, visits London for the anti-communist operation Uncle Remus, he points out Castle still is the natural suspect...


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Cast & Characters

Richard Attenborough as Col. John Daintry;
Joop Doderer as Cornelius Muller;
John Gielgud as Brig. Tomlinson;
Derek Jacobi as Arthur Davis;
Robert Morley as Dr. Percival;
Ann Todd as Castle's Mother;
Richard Vernon as Sir John Hargreaves;
Nicol Williamson as Maurice Castle;
Iman as Sarah;
Keith Marsh as Porter;
Anthony Woodruff as Dr. Barker;
Gary Forbes as Sam;
Angela Thorne as Lady Mary Hargreaves;
Tony Haygarth as Buffy;
Paul Curran as Halliday