Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.

• Katzka-Berne Productions
• The Rank Organisation
• Rod Taylor
• Christopher Plummer
• Lilli Palmer
• Camilla Sparv
• Daliah Lavi
• Clive Revill
• Lee Montague
• Calvin Lockhart