Counterspy

Counterspy

65 mins | Drama | July 27, 1953

While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.

Counterspy

65 mins | Drama | July 27, 1953

Counterspy
While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Merton Park Studios
Original title Counterspy
Directors Vernon Sewell
Writers Gaston Lazare, Guy Elmes

Cast

Dermot Walsh

as Frank Manning

Hazel Court

as Clare Manning

Hermione Baddeley

as Madame Del Mar

Alexander Gauge

as Smith

Bill Travers

as Rex / Jim Fenton

James Vivian

as Larry Fenton

Frederick Schrecker

as Plattnaur

John Penrose

as Paulson

Hugh Latimer

as Inspector Barlow

Beryl Baxter

as Plattnauer's Accomplice

Gwen Bacon

as Matron

Maxwell Foster

as Dr. Stevenson

Monti DeLyle

as Dance Director

Howard Lang

as Policeman