Counterspy (1953)
1h 5m
Running Time
July 27, 1953Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Dermot Walsh
Frank Manning
Hazel Court
Clare Manning
Hermione Baddeley
Madame Del Mar
Bill Travers
Rex
Alexander Gauge
Smith
Vernon Sewell
Director
Archie Duncan
Jim Fenton
Guy Elmes
Writer
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Counterspy is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court and Hermione Baddeley. A mild mannered accountant (Dermot Walsh) comes into possession of secret papers that both the government and a spy ring are after. Alexander Gauge turns in a good performance as a villain rather in the mould of Sydney Greenstreet.