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The Black Windmill

1974 · Movie · 106 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer57%as of 2025-12-02
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7/10as of 2021-10-10

What it is

The Black Windmill is a 1974 spy thriller film directed and produced by Don Siegel, and starring Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Clive Revill, John Vernon, Joss Ackland and Janet Suzman. Caine portrays a British intelligence officer whose son is kidnapped and held for ransom. The screenplay is based on Clive Egleton's 1973 novel Seven Days to a Killing.

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Genres
Action / Thriller
Original language
English

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