| Assignment Redhead | |
| Director: | Maclean Rogers |
| Producer: | William G. Chalmers Richard Gordon |
| Screenplay: | Maclean Rogers |
| Starring: | Richard Denning Carole Mathews Ronald Adam Danny Green |
| Music: | Wilfred Burns |
| Cinematography: | Ernest Palmer |
| Editing: | Peter Mayhew |
| Studio: | Amalgamated Productions Butcher's Film Distributors |
| Distributor: | Rank Film Organisation (UK) |
| Runtime: | 79 mins |
| Country: | United Kingdom United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | over £15,000[1] |
Assignment Redhead (released in the US as Million Dollar Manhunt) is a 1956 British crime thriller film written and directed by Maclean Rogers.[2] It is based on the novel Requiem for a Redhead by Lindsay Hardy.
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.
The film was the first of seven made by Richard Gordon's Amalgamated Productions. It was a co-production with Butcher's Film Distributors.[1]
The film was made for under £15,000 plus the salaries and expenses of the American participants.[1]