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The Human Factor

Duration:

115 min

Genres:

Drama | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.1

Director:

Otto Preminger

Details

Country: UK

Filming Locations: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Cyd Hayman

Keith Marsh

Richard Attenborough

Colonel John Daintry

Joop Doderer

Cornelius Muller

John Gielgud

Brigadier Tomlinson

Derek Jacobi

Arthur Davis

Robert Morley

Doctor Percival

Ann Todd

Castle's Mother

Richard Vernon

Sir John Hargreaves

Nicol Williamson

Maurice Castle

Iman

Sarah

Anthony Woodruff

Doctor Barker

Gary Forbes

Sam

Angela Thorne

Lady Mary Hargreaves

Tony Haygarth

Buffy

Paul Curran

Halliday

Ken Jones

Messenger

Paul Seed

Shop Assistant

Chantal Gray

Stripper

Fiona Fullerton

Elizabeth

Maurice Perry

Scientist

Walter Hinds

Van Donck

Philip Chege

Black Man

Tony Vogel

Matthew Connolly

Norbert Okare

Questioner

Vicky Udall

Castle's Secretary

Brian Epson

Judge

Mike Andrews

Witness

Leon Greene

Tall Man (as Leon Green)

Martin Benson

Boris

Giles Watling

Colin

Marianne Stone

Matron

Edward Dentith

Edward

Adrienne Corri

Sylvia

Robert Dorning

Jameson

Patrick O'Connell

Reader

Sean Caffrey

Policeman

Clifford Earl

Ferguson

Tom Chatto

General Phipps

Raewyn Blade

Secretary (as Rawyn Blade)

Glenna Forster-Jones

Black Prostitute

Sylvia Coleridge

Mrs. Halliday

Boris Isarov

Agent

Denys Hawthorne

Inspector Butler

Frank Williams

Bellamy

Ipi Tombi Company

African Dancers (as 'Ipi Tombi' Company)

Rebel

Buller

Did you know?

Trivia

The last feature film of Adrienne Corri.

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Author Graham Greene said of his novel 'The Human Factor' in his 1980 autobiography 'Ways of Escape' that it was "to write a novel of espionage free from the conventional violence, which has not, in spite of James Bond, been a feature of the British Secret Service...I wanted to present the Service unromantically as a way of life, men going daily to their office to earn their pensions."

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At the time that this espionage movie was made, actor Derek Jacobi (playing Arthur Davis) had only recently appeared as Guy Burgess in the Cambridge spies tele-movie, Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977). The suspicion of treason in both the Graham Greene novel 'The Human Factor' and this filmed adaption was based on Cambridge spy Kim Philby who was a friend of Greene's. Greene has said though that the central character of Maurice Castle (which is played in this film by Nicol Williamson) was not based on his former boss Kim Philby.

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Goofs

In the South African scenes (filmed in Kenya), the cars have Kenyan registration plates.

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Quotes

Maurice Castle: Davis calls all children "little bastards".

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