When Eight Bells Toll (1971 film)

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When Eight Bells Toll
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When Eight Bells Toll
Directed by Etienne Perrier
Produced by Jerry Gershwin, Elliot Kastner
Written by Alistair MacLean
Starring Anthony Hopkins
Jack Hawkins
Robert Morley
Nathalie Delon
Music by Angela Morley (credited as Walter Stott)
Cinematography Arthur Ibbetson
Editing by John Shirley
Distributed by J. Arthur Rank
Release date(s) 9 March 1971
Running time 94 min.
Country UK
Language English
Budget $7 million (approx.)
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When Eight Bells Toll is a 1971 action film set in Scotland, based on upon Scottish author Alistair MacLean's 1965 novel of the same name.

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British Treasury secret agent Phillip Calvert (Anthony Hopkins) is sent to investigate the hijacking of five cargo ships in the Irish Sea, tracking the latest hijacked ship - the Nantesville, carrying £8 million in gold bullion - to the Scottish Highlands and the sleepy port town of "Torbay" on the "Isle of Torbay" (patterned after Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull). Posing as marine biologists, Calvert and his partner Hunslett (Corin Redgrave) find something fishy and hostile among the Scottish inhabitants. They also suspect that Cypriot tycoon and shipping magnate Sir Anthony Skouras (Jack Hawkins), who is anchored off the coast in his luxury yacht Shangri-La, may be behind the pirating of the gold bullion.

Operating out of his yacht Firecrest, Calvert is joined by Skouros' wife, Charlotte (Nathalie Delon), and by his boss Sir Arthur Arnford-Jason, known as "Uncle Arthur" (Robert Morley).

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