Assignment K
Directed by	Val Guest
Screenplay by	Val Guest Bill Strutton Maurice Foster
Based on	Department K 1964 novel by Hartley Howard
Produced by	Maurice Foster Ben Arbeid
Starring	Stephen Boyd Camilla Sparv Michael Redgrave Leo McKern Robert Hoffmann Jeremy Kemp
Cinematography	Ken Hodges
Edited by	Jack Slade
Music by	Basil Kirchin
Color process	Technicolor
Production companies	Gildor Productions Mazurka Productions Ltd.
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	18 February 1968 (1968-02-18) (UK) June 1968 (1968-06) (USA)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Assignment K is a 1968 British spy thriller film directed by Val Guest in Techniscope and starring Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv, Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Robert Hoffmann and Jeremy Kemp.^[1] The film was based on the 1964 novel Department K by Hartley Howard.

Plot

A British spy has his cover blown, leading to the East German Stasi kidnapping his girlfriend to try to extract information about his double agents' activities.^[2]

Cast

• Stephen Boyd as Philip Scott
• Camilla Sparv as Toni Peters
• Michael Redgrave as Harris
• Leo McKern as Smith
• Robert Hoffmann as Paul Spiegler
• Jeremy Kemp as Hal
• Jane Merrow as Martine
• Carl Möhner as Inspector (as Carl Moehner)
• Vivi Bach as Erika Herschel
• Werner Peters as Kramer
• Dieter Geissler as Kurt
• John Alderton as George
• Jan Werich as Dr. Spiegler
• David Healy as David
• Ursula Howells as Estelle
• Basil Dignam as Howlett
• Geoffrey Bayldon as The Boffin
• Joachim Hansen as Heinrich Herschel

Production

Val Guest said "We shot it all out in Kitzbuhel, great cast: we had my Leo McKern again, and Michael Redgrave who was a very sick man, had terrible difficulties with his lines... Stephen [Boyd] was a wonderful person, a great giggler, a great professional, very nice guy."^[3]