The List of Adrian Messenger
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VHS cover for The List of Adrian Messenger
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| Directed by | John Huston |
| Produced by | Edward Lewis |
| Written by |
Philip MacDonald (based upon a story by) |
| Screenplay by | Anthony Veiller |
| Starring |
Tony Curtis Kirk Douglas Burt Lancaster Robert Mitchum Frank Sinatra George C Scott Dana Wynter Clive Brook Gladys Cooper Herbert Marshall |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography |
Joseph MacDonald (as Joe MacDonald) |
| Edited by |
Terry O. Morse Hugh S. Fowler |
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Joel Productions
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,700,000 (US/ Canada) |
The List of Adrian Messenger is a 1963 American mystery film directed by John Huston starring Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Clive Brook, Gladys Cooper and Herbert Marshall.
A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.
The passenger survives and turns out to be Raoul Le Borg (Jacques Roux), Gethryn's old World War II counterpart in the French Resistance. They join forces to investigate Messenger's list of names, and decode Messenger's final cryptic words. They establish that all on the list were together in a prisoner of war camp in Burma, where a Canadian sergeant, George Brougham, betrayed his fellow prisoners, foiling their escape attempt. Each has a reason to kill Brougham. It evolves that Brougham is their killer, but why? They deduce that he is about to come into prominence and cannot risk being recognised. Gethryn and Le Borg establish that he stands in line to an inheritance of the Bruttenholm family, landed gentry who are friends of Gethryn and the late Messenger, and who avidly engage in fox hunting.
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