''The Big Game'' is a 1973

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directed by Robert Day and starring

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, France Nuyen and

Ray Milland Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and film director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985. He is remembered for his Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival Award-winning ...

.McKay p.259 It was shot on location in

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and

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. It is also known by the

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of ''Control Factor''.

Synopsis

Seeking a way to promote world peace a wealthy American develops a machine that can control people's minds, and hires two

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to protect it on a ship travelling to Austria where they confront assault by hostile agents.

Cast

as Leyton van Dyk * France Nuyen as Atanga *

as Prof. Pete Handley * Cameron Mitchell as Bruno Carstens * Brendon Boone as Jim Handley * Michael Kirner as Mark Handley *

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as Lee *

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as Gen. Bill Stryker * George Wang as Wong * Marié du Toit as Lucie Handley *

Ian Yule Ian Yule (1933 — 3 December 2020) was a British born South African actor and soldier. He had a film career that commenced in the late 1960s and lasted to around the early to mid 2000s. Many of the roles he has played are that of a soldier. T ...

as Task Force Leader *

Bill Brewer Bill Brewer is a British philosopher and Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He was previously the Head of the Department of Philosophy. He was a scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, reading Maths and Philosophy an ...

as Ship's Captain *

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as Alberto * Larry McEvoy as Dr. Warden *

Anthony Dawson Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992) was a Scottish actor, best known for his supporting roles as villains in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's ''Dial M for Murder'' (1954) and '' Midnight Lace'' (1960), and playi ...

as Burton * Roger Dwyer as Skipper

References

Bibliography

* James McKay. ''Ray Milland: The Films, 1929-1984''. McFarland, 2020.

External links

* 1973 films Films directed by Robert Day Films scored by Francesco De Masi South African action films Italian action films 1973 action films Seafaring films 1970s English-language films English-language South African films English-language Italian films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-action-film-stub