Assignment Redhead

Assignment Redhead (released in the US as Million Dollar Manhunt) is a 1956 British crime thriller film written and directed by Maclean Rogers. It is based on the novel Requiem for a Redhead by Lindsay Hardy.

Synopsis
Murderous international master criminal Dumetrius specialises in providing false travel documents. He flies to London from post-war Berlin with twelve million dollars in counterfeit cash. To cover his tracks he kills one passenger, frames another, and then hides out with a cabaret cigarette girl. American Major Keen is working for British intelligence and pursues him. Keen falls for a redheaded singer and accordion-player, who is under Dumetrius's control.

Cast

 * Richard Denning as Major Gregory Keen
 * Carole Mathews as Hedy Bergner
 * Ronald Adam as Major Scammel / Dumetrius
 * Danny Green as Yotti Blum
 * Brian Worth as Captain Peter Ridgeway
 * Jan Holden as Sally Jennings
 * Hugh Moxey as Sergeant Tom Coutts
 * Peter Swanwick as Monsieur Paul Bonnet
 * Elwyn Brook-Jones as Digby Mitchel
 * Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Colonel Julian Fentriss, M.I.5.
 * Robert O'Neil as Captain Hank Godowski
 * Paul Hardtmuth as Dr. Buchmann
 * Bill Nagy as Marzotti
 * Alex Gallier as Max Rubenstein
 * Robert Bruce as Staff Officer
 * George Holdcroft as Nightclub Diner

Production
The film was the first of seven made by Richard Gordon's Amalgamated Productions. It was a co-production with Butcher's Film Distributors.

The film was made for under £15,000 plus the salaries and expenses of the American participants.