The Trygon Factor
Cast & Crew
Cyril Frankel
Stewart Granger
Susan Hampshire
Robert Morley
Cathleen Nesbitt
Brigitte Horney
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Synopsis
Livia Emberday and her photographer daughter Trudy resort to crime in order to save their stately English manor from financial ruin. Assisted by Livia's dim-witted son Luke, the two women have installed a bogus order of nuns on the grounds and are using the convent as a front for receiving stolen goods and shipping them to the warehouse of Hubert Hamlyn, an old friend whose wife is posing as the Sister General at the phony convent. When a man from Scotland Yard disappears while investigating the convent, Superintendent Cooper-Smith is assigned to the case. Arriving at Emberday Hall, he finds an interment underway in the family vault. Although he is unaware that the "corpse" is actually Emil Clossen, a safecracking specialist who has been smuggled into England for the next Emberday caper, Cooper-Smith is suspicious and enlists the aid of Sophie, the receptionist at the local hotel. Once the gang has stolen £1 million in gold bullion from a city bank, they ship the ingots to the convent for melting down before being smuggled abroad by Hamlyn. While Cooper-Smith is following a trail to the convent, Sophie is captured trying to investigate alone. Cooper-Smith arrives as the nuns are pouring the molten gold into pottery vases, and confusion quickly turns to panic: Hamlyn is strangled, Clossen is drowned in a coffin, Luke is shot by his mother, Trudy is killed by a crucible filled with the molten gold, and Cooper-Smith is accidentally knocked unconscious by Sophie.
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Director
Cyril Frankel
Cast
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Stewart Granger
Susan Hampshire
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Robert Morley
Cathleen Nesbitt
Brigitte Horney
Sophie Hardy
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James Robertson-justice
Eddi Arent
Diane Clare
James Culliford
Allan Cuthbertson
Colin Gordon
Yuri Borienko
Conrad Monk
Russell Waters
Caroline Blakiston
Richardina Jackson
John Barrett
Jeremy Hawk
Joseph Cuby
Inigo Jackson
Tom Bowman
Cicely Paget-bowman
Hilary Wontner
Crew
Stephen Andrews
Stephen Andrews
David Bowen
Robert J. Faloon
Stuart Freeman
Oswald Hafenrichter
Wolfgang Kühnlenz
Pat Morton
Stanley Munro
Hazel Peisei
Derry Quinn
Derry Quinn
Ted Samuels
Roy Stannard
Brian Taylor
Peter Thomas
Ian Warren
Harry Waxman
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Released in Great Britain in July 1967.
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