Stolen Assignment (1955)
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
- Date of release
- 1955-08-01
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Terence Fisher
Casting
- John Bentley — Mike Billings
- Hy Hazell — Jenny Drew
- Eddie Byrne — Inspector Corcoran
- Patrick Holt — Henry Crossley
- Joyce Carey — Ida Garnett
- Kay Callard — Stella Watson
- Jessica Cairns — Marilyn Dawn
- Charles Farrell — Percy Simpson
- Violet Gould — Mrs. Hudson
- Michael Ellison — Danny Hudson
- Desmond Rayner — John Smith
- Graham Stuart — Coroner
Interesting facts
Stolen Assignment is a 1955 British comedy 'B' film directed by Terence Fisher and starring John Bentley and Hy Hazell. It was written by Kenneth Hayles from a story by Sidney Nelson and Maurice Harrison, and produced by Francis Searle for Act Films Ltd. It was a sequel to Fisher's Final Appointment (1954), featuring sleuthing journalists Mike Billings and Jenny Drew.
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