Counterspy (aka Undercover Agent)
Date: 1953
Director: Vernon Sewell
Production Company: Abtcon Pictures, Merton Park Studios
Stars: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley, Alexander Gauge, Bill Travers, Archie Duncan, James Vivian, Hugh Latimer
Location(s): London, South East maybe
Region(s): London C-D, South East A-D
Storyline:
An auditor comes into possession of an envelope containing prints and drawings which the British government is anxious to obtain and also a great many other people, all of whom try to get them from him by any means. He escapes many of the traps set for him by the villains, but is finally captured and is tied to an operating table where the gang leader is set to do some scalpel work on him.
Additional Information:
Screen captures uploaded by Richard Lovejoy
imdb shows the films duration as 68 mins. My legitimate copy has a duration of 66 mins. Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane in their book The British ‘B’ Film state “with a chase round the Big Dipper in the Festival Gardens fun fair”, maybe that is my missing two minutes.
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I have lost the thread of any story and the will to watch much more but here Larry Fenton (James Vivian) is returning home after going to that of Frank Manning (Dermot Walsh) to collect the morning mail.
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Clare Manning (Hazel Court) agrees with the police to keep her appointment with Larry that evening at the Festival Gardens. Battersea Festival Pleasure Gardens, various parts of which are seen in 'Bedazzled', 'The Wrong Arm of the Law', 'The Mutations', 'Doctor in the House', 'The File of the Golden Goose', 'Seventy Deadly Pills', 'The Day the Earth Caught Fire' and 'Torture Garden'. Although a night shot, I cannot match the content to the Garden’s Guide Plan.
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The “Sanatorium” where the abducted Frank and later his wife Clare, are taken.
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The police pay a visit to the “Sanatorium”.