The Golden Head is a 1964 American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

-Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Richard Thorpe

Richard Thorpe

Richard Thorpe was an American film director.Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and onstage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred...

 and James Hill

James Hill (British director)

James Hill was a British film and television director, screenwriter and producer whose career spanned 52 years between 1937–1989, best remembered for his documentaries and short subjects such as Giuseppina and The Home Made Car, and as director of the internationally acclaimed Born Free.Hill...

 and starring George Sanders

George Sanders

George Sanders was a British actor.George Sanders may also refer to:*George Sanders , Victoria Cross recipient in World War I...

, Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett was an American comedian and actor.-Early life:Hackett was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103...

, Jess Conrad

Jess Conrad

Jess Conrad OBE is an actor and singer from England.-Career:Having started his career as a repertory actor and film extra, Jess Conrad was cast in a television play "Bye, Bye Barney" as a pop singer...

, Lorraine Power and Robert Coote

Robert Coote

Robert Coote was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady.-Biography:Coote was educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex...

.

Synopsis

The children of a British policemen holidaying in Hungary track down a priceless art treasure which has recently been stolen.

Production

Its Hungarian title is Az aranyfej. It was shot on location in Hungary and was loosely based on the novel by Nepomuk of the River Roger Windle Pilkington. Lionel Jeffries

Lionel Jeffries

Lionel Charles Jeffries was an English actor, screenwriter and film director.-Early life and career:Jeffries attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. In 1945, he received a commission in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry...

 and Hayley Mills

Hayley Mills

Hayley Mills is an English actress. The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay , the Academy Juvenile Award...

 were originally attached to the project. James Hill was the original director, but was replaced by Richard Thorpe during shooting.

Cast

• George Sanders
  George Sanders
  George Sanders was a British actor.George Sanders may also refer to:*George Sanders , Victoria Cross recipient in World War I...
  
   - Basil Palmer
• Buddy Hackett
  Buddy Hackett
  Buddy Hackett was an American comedian and actor.-Early life:Hackett was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103...
  
   - Lionel Pack
• Jess Conrad
  Jess Conrad
  Jess Conrad OBE is an actor and singer from England.-Career:Having started his career as a repertory actor and film extra, Jess Conrad was cast in a television play "Bye, Bye Barney" as a pop singer...
  
   - Michael Stevenson
• Lorraine Power - Milly Stevenson
• Robert Coote
  Robert Coote
  Robert Coote was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady.-Biography:Coote was educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex...
  
   - Braithwaite
• Denis Gilmore - Harold Stevenson
• Cecília Esztergályos - Anne
• Douglas Wilmer
  Douglas Wilmer
  -Early life:Wilmer was born in London and educated at King's School, Canterbury and Stonyhurst College. He trained at RADA but was called up to the Army in World War II. Posted to an antitank battery in the Royal West African Frontier Force, he was invalided out after he acquired tuberculosis. He...
  
   - Detective Inspector Stevenson
• Sándor Pécsi
  Sándor Pécsi
  Sándor Pécsi was a Hungarian actor. He appeared in over 60 films between 1948 and 1972.-Selected filmography:* Különös házasság * Liliomfi * The Golden Head...
  
   - Priest
• Zoltán Makláry - Old Man