Watch The Black Windmill (1974) Free Online

Release Date: 1974

Cast: John Vernon, Donald Pleasence, Janet Suzman, Michael Caine

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Spy

The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine, John Vernon, Janet Suzman and Donald Pleasence The screenplay by Leigh Vance is based on Clive Egleton's novel Seven Days to a Killing. The story involves a British secret service agent, John Tarrant (Caine), involved in the investigation of an international arms syndicate. Tarrant's son (Moss) is kidnapped and held to ransom, leading Tarrant to discover that he cannot even rely on the people on his own side. The film was made, in part, on location at Clayton Windmills, south of Burgess... MORE

The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine, John Vernon, Janet Suzman and Donald Pleasence The screenplay by Leigh Vance is based on Clive Egleton's novel Seven Days to a Killing. The story involves a British secret service agent, John Tarrant (Caine), involved in the investigation of an international arms syndicate. Tarrant's son (Moss) is kidnapped and held to ransom, leading Tarrant to discover that he cannot even rely on the people on his own side. The film was made, in part, on location at Clayton Windmills, south of Burgess Hill, in West Sussex, England. It also featured scenes filmed at Aldwych and Shepherd's Bush tube stations. A section of the film was also shot at Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate Hoverport, where Tarrant makes his way across the channel and sneaks onto the back of a bus which is onboard the hovercraft Swift, this was inorder to pass back through customs undetected so that British intelligence was not aware of his locallity- this is one of the most miss-understood parts of the film and hence has been reported on the website Rotten Tomatoes with a 45% audience ranking (March 2012). The film was a commercial LESS