Man in the Middle (film)

Man in the Middle
The Winston Affair
British quad poster
Directed byGuy Hamilton
Screenplay byWillis Hall
Keith Waterhouse
Based onThe Winston Affair
(1959 novel)
by Howard Fast
Produced byWalter Seltzer
StarringRobert Mitchum
France Nuyen
Barry Sullivan
CinematographyWilkie Cooper
Edited byJohn Bloom
Music byJohn Barry
Lionel Bart
Production
company
Talbot Productions
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • 5 February 1964 (1964-02-05)
Running time
94 min.
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,000,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

Man in the Middle is a 1964 British-American CinemaScope war film and starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Guy Hamilton. The movie, set in World War II India, tells the story of the murder trial of an American Army officer who killed a British soldier. Mitchum plays Lieutenant Colonel Barney Adams, who has been assigned as the accused man's defence counsel. The film is also known as The Winston Affair, the title of the novel the film was based on, which was written by Howard Fast.

  1. ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965 p 39. Please note this figure is rentals accruing to distributors not total gross.