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4 unusual facts about The List of Adrian Messenger


Anthony Gethryn

George C. Scott played Gethryn in the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger, based on MacDonald's 1959 novel of the same name.

David Martí

Early ambitions to become a comic book artist were soon abandoned: while watching the first of the Star Wars trilogy, and above all John Huston's The List of Adrian Messenger, in which numerous disguised characters remove their makeup at the film's finale, something clicked while working in advertising, Marti enrolled in the Dick Smith makeup correspondence course, perfect training for this future career.

Hunt Saboteurs Association

A group of hunt saboteurs both appear and are a critical part of the plot in the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger.

John Merivale

In 1956 he made his second film appearance, in The Battle of the River Plate, and went on to have supporting roles in films such as A Night to Remember (1958), Circus of Horrors (1960), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), in which he played the title character, who is killed thirteen minutes into the film, King Rat (1965), and Arabesque (1966).



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