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A Dandy in Aspic
A Dandy in Aspic is a 1968 Technicolor and Panavision British spy film, directed by Anthony Mann, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Derek Marlowe and starring Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, and Mia Farrow. It was Mann's final film.
Essentially a Cold War thriller, it is the story of a Russian counter-espionage agent known as Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) to his employers in British Intelligence, where he is working undercover for Moscow as a double agent.
Mann, 60, American film actor and director, died in West Berlin while directing some location shots for his final film, "A Dandy in Aspic".
- J. B. Lenoir, 38, African-American blues musician, from a heart attack three weeks after injuring his chest in an automobile accident.
April 30, 1967 (Sunday).
- Under federal law, daylight saving time went into effect on the throughout the United States for the first time, with the 1966 Uniform Time Act mandating that