...And Millions Will Die! (aka "And Millions Die") is a 1973 Australian television film directed by Leslie H. Martinson. It was shot in Hong Kong.
Premise Nazi war criminal Franz Kessler (Joseph Furst), a wealthy germ warfare expert living in Hong Kong, plants a gas-filled time bomb under the city sewers.
Cast Richard Basehart as Dr. Douglas Pruitt Susan Strasberg as Heather Kessler Peter Sumner as Dixie Hart Joseph Furst as Franz Kessler Alwyn Kurts as Dr. Mitchell Shariff Medan as Postman Leslie Nielsen as Jack Gallagher Rowena Wallace as Maggi Christopher Willie Fennell as Sid Broomberg Les Foxcroft as Henshaw
Production The film was a feature-length pilot for a proposed television series called "E-Force", about a crack environmental detective unit trying to track down those responsible for a poison gas attack.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p6 The villain Kessler was played by Viennese-born actor Joseph Furst, who was a regular on Australian TV and films. Make-up artist Pat Hutchence is the mother of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
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