Suspect (1960)
Humanity or Total Destruction...
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
- Date of release
- 1960-11-15
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Thriller
- Director
- Roy Boulting, John Boulting
Casting
- Tony Britton — Dr. Robert Marriott
- Virginia Maskell — Dr. Lucy Byrne
- Ian Bannen — Alan Andrews
- Kenneth Griffith — Dr Shole
- Peter Cushing — Professor Sewell
- Thorley Walters — Special Agent Prince
- Donald Pleasence — Parsons, alias Bill Brown
- Spike Milligan — Arthur, lab orderly
- Raymond Huntley — Sir George Gatting the Minister of Defense
- Sam Kydd — Slater
- Anthony Booth — Parkin
- Basil Dignam — Dr Childs
Interesting facts
Suspect is a 1960 British 'B' thriller film produced and directed by Roy and John Boulting and starring Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen and Donald Pleasence. It was based on the 1949 novel A Sort of Traitors by Nigel Balchin.
Production
The film was made at Shepperton Studios on a limited budget in seventeen days. Sets were designed by art director Albert Witherick.
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