Hammerhead (film)

Hammerhead
Original film poster
Directed byDavid Miller
Written byJohn Briley (adaptation)
Herbert Baker
William Bast (screenplay)
Based onHammerhead
by James Mayo
Produced byIrving Allen
StarringVince Edwards
Judy Geeson
Peter Vaughan
CinematographyWilkie Cooper
Kenneth Talbot
Edited byGeoffrey Foot
Music byDavid Whitaker
Production
company
Irving Allen Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 1968 (1968-04)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Hammerhead is a 1968 British Eurospy thriller film directed by David Miller and starring Vince Edwards, Judy Geeson and Diana Dors.[1] Its plot concerns a criminal mastermind who attempts to steal NATO secrets, with an American agent hot on his trail. It is based on the 1964 novel of the same title by English novelist James Mayo, and produced by Irving Allen and written by Herbert Baker, who made the Matt Helm films for Columbia Pictures. It was filmed in London and Portugal.