Delayed Action

Delayed Action

58 mins | Crime | July 1, 1954

Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.

Delayed Action

58 mins | Crime | July 1, 1954

Delayed Action
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Kenilworth Film Productions
Original title Delayed Action
Directors Gwen Endsleigh, Johnny Goodman, John Harlow
Writers Geoffrey Orme

Cast

Robert Ayres

as Ned Ellison

June Thorburn

as Anne Curlew

Alan Wheatley

as Mark Cruden

Bruce Seton

as Sellars

Michael Balfour

as Honey

Ballard Berkeley

as Insp. Crane

Michael Kelly

as Lobb

John Horsley

as Worsley

Olive Kirby

as Angela Bentley

Ian Fleming

as Dr. Jepson

Myrtle Reed

as Jackie

Dennis Chinnery

as Bank cashier

Charles Lamb

as Bank clerk