Dick Barton at Bay

Dick Barton at Bay (1950)

David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).

Data di uscita
1950-10-02
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (7)
Durata
1 h 4 min
Generi
Avventura, Crime, Famiglia, Fantascienza
Regista
Godfrey Grayson
Collezione
Dick Barton Collection

Cast

Curiosità

Dick Barton at Bay is a 1950 British second feature ('B') spy film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Don Stannard. It was written by Ambrose Grayson and was intended to be the second of three films that Hammer Film Productions made about the British agent Dick Barton, although it was the last one to be released, following Dick Barton: Special Agent (1948) and Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949). The film started production on March 4, 1948, but it was only trade shown on September 2, 1950, and theatrically released on October 2, 1950. The film's original working title was Dick Barton and the Ray of Death.

Production

A fourth Dick Barton film was scheduled, to be called Dick Barton in Darkest Africa, but Don Stannard was killed in an untimely car crash driving back from the wrap party on July 9, 1949, and Hammer elected not to continue the series.

Leggi su Wikipedia · Testo da Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Dati da Wikidata.

Consigliati