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The Black Windmill

Duration:

106 min

Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.3

Director:

Don Siegel

Details

Country: UK

Filming Locations: Ramsgate Hoverport, Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Donald Pleasence

Michael Caine

Maj. John Tarrant

Delphine Seyrig

Ceil Burrows

Clive Revill

Alf Chestermann

John Vernon

McKee

Joss Ackland

Chief Supt. Wray

Janet Suzman

Alex Tarrant

Catherine Schell

Lady Melissa Julyan

Joseph O'Conor

Sir Edward Julyan

Denis Quilley

Bateson

Derek Newark

Monitoring Policeman

Edward Hardwicke

Mike McCarthy

Maureen Pryor

Jane Harper

Joyce Carey

Miss Monley

Preston Lockwood

Ilkeston

Molly Urquhart

Margaret

David Daker

MI5 Man

Hermione Baddeley

Hetty

Patrick Barr

Gen. St. John

Yves Afonso

Jacques (uncredited)

Del Baker

Shadow (uncredited)

Murray Brown

Doctor (uncredited)

Jacques Ciron

(uncredited)

George A. Cooper

Pincus (uncredited)

Brenda Cowling

Pleasant Secretary (uncredited)

Robert Dorning

Jeweller (uncredited)

Nancy Gabrielle

Manageress (uncredited)

John Harvey

Heppenstel (uncredited)

Walter Henry

Man at Auction (uncredited)

Frank Henson

S.P. Driver (uncredited)

Paul Humpoletz

Tompkins (uncredited)

Derek Lord

Sellars (uncredited)

Roger Lumont

Bit Part (uncredited)

Paul Moss

David Tarrant (uncredited)

Russell Napier

Adm. Ballantyne (uncredited)

Mark Praid

James Stroud (uncredited)

John Rhys-Davies

Fake Military Policeman (uncredited)

Jessie Robins

Passenger on the Bus Beside Tarrant (uncredited)

Michael Segal

Postman (uncredited)

Hilary Sesta

Ilkeston's Secretary (uncredited)

Anthony Verner

Magnus Petrie (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The picture's opening credits had the words of its billings formed out of characters that were children's lettered playing blocks.

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The film was made and release around one to two years after its source novel "Seven Days to a Killing" by Clive Egleton had been first published in 1973.

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In his memoirs Joss Ackland writes he was working on three other films as well as playing Wray in this film.

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Goofs

At the start of the film where the van is blown up on the motorway, it becomes clear that the scene is filmed on an incomplete stretch of motorway (possibly the M3, which was completed in 1974) as lane markings are missing from one carriageway.

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In the roof garden where Tarrant's wife sends the toy fire engine down the slide towards him, as Tarrant turns to re-enter the house, the reflection of the boom mic can briefly be seen in the glass doors behind.

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