Undercover Agent (1953)
(Counterspy)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 68m
Director: Vernon Sewell
Cast: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley, Bill Travers, John Penrose
Synopsis:
An auditor is manipulated under false pretences into purloining stolen documents containing sensitive state secrets. Abducted by their owners, he is in danger of undergoing an emergency appendectomy if his showgirl wife cannot bring the police in time!
Review:
Dick Barton-style 'B' feature that harks back to the 1930s quota quickie in its lack of ambition. Walsh plays his auditor very much like a Wing Commander off a wartime flagwaver, and glamorous Court makes the least likely of spouses. Its assortment of goons, not least Travers in a William Bendix role, offers some entertainment, and Baddeley is an inconsequential walk-on as a medium. The agent of the title, if it refers to anyone, alludes to Paulson, the largely off-screen owner of the business Walsh is supposed to be auditing. Strictly for social historians.
(Counterspy)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 68m
Director: Vernon Sewell
Cast: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley, Bill Travers, John Penrose
Synopsis:
An auditor is manipulated under false pretences into purloining stolen documents containing sensitive state secrets. Abducted by their owners, he is in danger of undergoing an emergency appendectomy if his showgirl wife cannot bring the police in time!
Review:
Dick Barton-style 'B' feature that harks back to the 1930s quota quickie in its lack of ambition. Walsh plays his auditor very much like a Wing Commander off a wartime flagwaver, and glamorous Court makes the least likely of spouses. Its assortment of goons, not least Travers in a William Bendix role, offers some entertainment, and Baddeley is an inconsequential walk-on as a medium. The agent of the title, if it refers to anyone, alludes to Paulson, the largely off-screen owner of the business Walsh is supposed to be auditing. Strictly for social historians.
(Counterspy)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 68m
Director: Vernon Sewell
Cast: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley, Bill Travers, John Penrose
Synopsis:
An auditor is manipulated under false pretences into purloining stolen documents containing sensitive state secrets. Abducted by their owners, he is in danger of undergoing an emergency appendectomy if his showgirl wife cannot bring the police in time!
Review:
Dick Barton-style 'B' feature that harks back to the 1930s quota quickie in its lack of ambition. Walsh plays his auditor very much like a Wing Commander off a wartime flagwaver, and glamorous Court makes the least likely of spouses. Its assortment of goons, not least Travers in a William Bendix role, offers some entertainment, and Baddeley is an inconsequential walk-on as a medium. The agent of the title, if it refers to anyone, alludes to Paulson, the largely off-screen owner of the business Walsh is supposed to be auditing. Strictly for social historians.