Sebastian
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
David Greene
Dirk Bogarde
Susannah York
Lilli Palmer
John Gielgud
Margaret Johnston
Film Details
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Synopsis
Sebastian, a former Oxford professor, heads the all-female decoding staff of British Intelligence. One day he has a chance meeting with young Becky Howard and is so impressed by her mental agility that he offers her a job deciphering codes used by foreign agents. A crisis develops when Elsa Shahn, a former Communist and one of Sebastian's most trusted associates, is accused of being a poor security risk by the brutish Inspector Phillips. But Sebastian persuades the Head of Intelligence that Elsa is vital to his operation. During all of this the headstrong Becky seduces Sebastian, thereby irritating his longtime mistress, Carol Fancy, a former pop singer. Elsa then betrays the trust placed in her by giving decoded information to a left-wing political organization. Obligated to resign, Sebastian leaves London and returns to his professorship at Oxford. Sometime later he is summoned back to his post by Head of Intelligence to help decode the signals emanating from a newly-launched Russian satellite. While looking for Becky (who has left the department), he runs into Carol and is lured to a party at her flat and drugged with LSD. He is saved from killing himself while hallucinating by the timely intervention of Inspector Phillips, who has been trailing him. Eventually, Sebastian locates Becky and learns that he is the father of her baby. A noise from the child's rattle provides Sebastian with the clue to the Russian signals; and, aided by his still-faithful team of girls, he breaks the sputnik code.
Director
David Greene
Cast
Dirk Bogarde
Susannah York
Lilli Palmer
John Gielgud
Margaret Johnston
Nigel Davenport
John Ronane
Susan Whitman
Ann Beach
Ann Sidney
Veronica Clifford
Jeanne Roland
Lyn Pinkney
Louise Pernell
Janet Munro
Ronald Fraser
Donald Sutherland
Alan Freeman
Charles Lloyd Pack
Portland Mason
Hayward Morse
James Belchamber
Charles Farrell
Jennifer Lautrec
Sally Douglas
David Toguri
Stuart Hoyle
Ann Norman
Edwina Carroll
Robin Tolhurst
Crew
Robert Berger
H. L. Bird
Clifton Brandon
Herbert Brodkin
Herbert Brodkin
Wally Byatt
Fred Carter
Gerry Fisher
Gordon Gilbert
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith
Gerry Humphreys
Bob Lawrence
Leo Marks
Terence Morgan Ii
John Pellatt
Michael Powell
Michael Powell
Bridget Sellers
Hal Shaper
Wilfrid Shingleton
Ann Skinner
Brian Smedley-aston
Jimmy Turrell
Gerald Vaughan-hughes
Richard Williams Films
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Location scenes filmed at Manchester University. Opened in London in March 1968. Prerelease title: Mister Sebastian.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter January 24, 1968
Released in United States Winter January 24, 1968
