The List of Adrian Messenger

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) is a black and white thriller about a retired British colonel (George C. Scott) investigating a series of apparently unrelated deaths. The film is based on the 1961 novel of the same title by Philip MacDonald. A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated 'accidental' deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently re... more

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) is a black and white thriller about a retired British colonel (George C. Scott) investigating a series of apparently unrelated deaths. The film is based on the 1961 novel of the same title by Philip MacDonald. A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated 'accidental' deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, dying, he tries to tell his former seat mate the key to the mystery. Interviewed by Gethryn, the seat mate turns out to be Raoul Le Borg (Jacques Roux), Gethryn's old World War II counterpart in the French Resistance. Following Messenger's list of names they eliminate possible suspects to identify the killer, the motive and the modus operandi, but cannot act without evidence. They have not... less