During the Cold War, the chief of a British intelligence code-breaking section falls in love with a new employee and shields an old co-worker accused of Communist affiliations from the wrath... Read allDuring the Cold War, the chief of a British intelligence code-breaking section falls in love with a new employee and shields an old co-worker accused of Communist affiliations from the wrath of the security branch.During the Cold War, the chief of a British intelligence code-breaking section falls in love with a new employee and shields an old co-worker accused of Communist affiliations from the wrath of the security branch.
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- TriviaOriginally planned as a reunion between the writer (Leo Marks) and the director (Michael Powell) of Peeping Tom (1960), this was inspired by Marks' own wartime career as an ace code-breaker. However, the notoriety of "Peeping Tom" made it hard to get the project off the ground. Powell became connected with American producer Herbert Brodkin during the making of the television series Espionage (1963), and hoped that Brodkin's interest would get this movie made. When it finally was, he and Marks were replaced. Powell had to be content with a producing credit, while Marks was credited solely with the story.
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Miss Elliott: [answering the phone] Abbey nine seven double three...
Rebecca Howard: Is there someone there called, Sebastian... oh... Sebastian someone?
Miss Elliott: Mister Sebastian...
Rebecca Howard: I met him in Oxford in the spring and he offered me a job
Miss Elliott: Hold on
Sebastian: [to Sebastian] A girl who says you offered her a job... in the spring
Sebastian: In the spring?
Miss Elliott: At Oxford
Sebastian: Ah! Licence number 66-0-F-Y-H
[he picks up the handset]
Sebastian: Let me smother you in jewels and furs; let me whisk you to Monte in my Mercedes...
Rebecca Howard: What?
Sebastian: ...Let me teach you the meaning of desire
Rebecca Howard: Sounds a bit old-fashioned to me
Sebastian: Yeah, well it is rather an old-fashioned business
Rebecca Howard: What do you do?
Sebastian: [to Miss Elliott] what do we do?
Miss Elliott: [picks up handset] This is Mister Sebastian's personal assistant. We are a more-or-less sane and respectable department of the Civil Service, appearances notwithstanding. Would you like me to arrange an interview?
Rebecca Howard: Civil Service? Good God! No thank you very much
Miss Elliott: [to Sebastian] Well, you've lost her. Is she any good?
Sebastian: Don't know. Can't tell.
Miss Elliott: You've been doing rather a lot of this stuff recently
Sebastian: A lot of what stuff?
Miss Elliott: Gaily irresponsible stuff. This fart-arsing about. It's time you took a proper holiday
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- Dec 31, 2005
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- Der mysteriöse Mr. Sebastian
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- $1,250,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1