storms the windmill and rescues his son, killing Drabble and his henchman. He carries David out of the windmill and along the road singing "Underneath the spreading chestnut tree" to him. Cast Michael Caine as Major John Tarrant Donald Pleasence as Cedric Harper Joseph O'Conor as Sir Edward Julyan John Vernon as McKee Janet Suzman as Alex Tarrant Delphine Seyrig as Ceil Burrows Joss Ackland as Chief Superintendent Wray Clive Revill as Alf Chestermann Catherine Schell as Lady Melissa Julyan Denis Quilley as Bateson Edward Hardwicke as Mike McCarthy Paul Moss as David Tarrant Derek Newark as Policeman monitoring Tarrant's phone Maureen Pryor as Mrs Harper Joyce Carey as Harper's Secretary Preston Lockwood as Ilkeston, bank manager Molly Urquhart as Margaret David Daker as MI5 man Hermione Baddeley as Hetty Patrick Barr as General St John Russell Napier as Admiral Ballantyne (uncredited) Robert Dorning as Jeweller (uncredited) John Rhys-Davies as Fake military policeman (uncredited) Production Writing The screenplay by Leigh Vance is based on Clive Egleton's 1973 novel Seven Days to a Killing. The story involves a British secret service agent, John Tarrant (Caine), involved in the investigation of an international arms syndicate. Tarrant's son is kidnapped and held to ransom, leading Tarrant to discover that he cannot even rely on the people on his own side. Filming The film was made, in part, on location at Clayton Windmills, south of Burgess Hill, in West Sussex, England. It also featured scenes filmed at Aldwych and Shepherd's Bush tube stations. Also The Red Lion public house in the Duke of York Street A section of the film was also shot at Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate Hoverport, where Tarrant makes his way across the channel and sneaks onto the back of a bus which is on board the hovercraft Sure. At the end of the film it is stated that the film was shot on location in England and France and completed at Twickenham Film Studios, Middlesex, England. Reception On the website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 29% rating. A review in the New York Times gave the film a mixed reaction describing it as a "thoroughly professional job" but criticising its lack of invention and the failure of Caine's character to demonstrate any emotion about his son's kidnapping. Donald Pleasence's performance as the fastidious Harper was praised. It concluded "in the age of Watergate, we need nimbler or more fantastic material