Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.

James Coburn
as Robert Elliot

Lee Grant
as Jean Robertson

Harry Andrews
as Albert Parsons

Ian Hendry
as Alex Hellman

Michael Jayston
as David Baker

Christiane Krüger
as Christina Larsson

Keenan Wynn
as E.J. Farnsworth

Terence Alexander
as Business tycoon

Julian Glover
as Arnold Pryce-Jones

Philip Anthony
as Eliot's Secretary
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James Coburn is quite effective in this action thriller. He is "Prof. Elliot", about to become a high ranking government advisor. Snag is, he has quite a past - and so must devise a cunning plan to ensure that all those privy to his dirty laundry are eliminated. The plot utilises quite a clever domi...