When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Directors

Etienne Périer

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Nathalie Delon, Robert Morley, Corin Redgrave, Jack Hawkins, Wendy Allnutt, Ferdy Mayne, Derek Bond, Maurice Roëves, Leon Collins

The story

British Treasury secret agent Phillip Calvert is sent to investigate the hijacking of five cargo ships in the Irish Sea, tracking the latest hijacked ship – the Nantesville, carrying £8 million in gold bullion – to the Scottish Highlands and the sleepy port town of "Torbay" on the "Isle of Torbay" (actually filmed in Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull). Posing as marine biologists, Calvert and his partner Hunslett find the local inhabitants suspicious and hostile. They suspect that Cypriot tycoon and shipping magnate Sir Anthony Skouras, whose luxury yacht Shangri-La is anchored off the coast, may be behind the pirating of the gold bullion.

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