Funeral for an Assassin

Funeral for an Assassin is a 1974 South Africa film directed by Ivan Hall.

Plot

Michael Cardiff is a professional revolutionary highly trained in a variety of techniques of assassination, infiltration and evading law enforcement. After escaping from prison he places identification items on a decomposed body to make him appear dead as he plans his revenge against the government. Cardiff uses his skills to murder a prominent judge making his death look like an accident in order to plant an improvised explosive device at his funeral attended by the movers and shakers of the regime. Only one non conformist police captain is on to his plans.

Cast

Vic Morrow as Michael Cardiff

Peter Van Dissel as Capt. Evered Roos

Gaby Getz as Julia Ivens

Sam Williams as Umzinga

Stuart Parker as Commandant Overbeek

Gillian Garlick as Nurse Schoenfeld

Siegfried Mynhardt as Judge William Whitfield

Norman Coombes as Fourie

Chris Bezuidenhout as Karl Yates

Albert Raphael as Claude Ormsby

Bruce Anderson as Prime Minister

Henry Vaughn as Reverend Martin Hemsley

Gwynne Davies as Magdalena Stewart

Nimrod Motchabane as Black Policeman

John Boulter as Surgeon

DeWet Van Rooyen as Minister

Michael Lovegrove as D.I.S. Inspector

Johan Brewis as T.V. Announcer

Michael Jameson as D.I.S. Agent

External links

1974 films

1970s crime drama films

Political thriller films

1970s crime thriller films

English-language South African films

Afrikaans-language films

1974 drama films

Films directed by Ivan Hall