Counterspy (1953)
Espionage! Intrigue! Murder!
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.
- Date of release
- 1953-07-27
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Vernon Sewell
Casting
- Dermot Walsh — Frank Manning
- Hazel Court — Clare Manning
- Hermione Baddeley — Madame Del Mar
- Alexander Gauge — Smith
- Bill Travers — Rex
- Archie Duncan — Jim Fenton
- James Vivian — Larry Fenton
- Frederick Schrecker — Plattnaur
- John Penrose — Paulson
- Hugh Latimer — Inspector Barlow
- Beryl Baxter — Plattnauer's Accomplice
- Gwen Bacon — Matron
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