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Christopher Lee calls Penny and the Pownall Case ‘a Z-feature, a truly grisly free-for-all’. Director Slim Hand’s engaging 1948 British second feature mystery film Penny and the Pownall Case, starring Ralph Michael, may be obscure but […]
Director Robert Tronson’s 1963 black and white real-life crime thriller Ring of Spies [Ring of Treason] is an involving, realistic film of the infamous Sixties Portland Spy Ring case in Britain. Bernard Lee gives a […]
‘TO ANSWER THE LURE OF HER LIPS WAS FATAL!’ Director Victor Saville’s 1933 I Was a Spy stars Madeleine Carroll as Marthe Cnockaert, a real-life World War One nurse who in German-occupied Belgium in 1914 […]
After two box-office disappointments, it seemed that Robert Wagner was unable to make the transition to top-level star. This appeared confirmed when he was the lead in Stopover Tokyo (1957), a CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour […]
In 1950 Rhonda Fleming portrays John Payne’s fiery love interest Madeline Danzeeger in the Western film The Eagle and the Hawk. American lawmen Texas Ranger Captain Todd Croyden (John Payne) and Union spy Whitney Randolph (Dennis O’Keefe) […]
Director Clive Donner’s daffy, campy, bawdy 1980 American spy spoof comedy The Nude Bomb (retitled The Return of Maxwell Smart for television) is based on the TV series Get Smart with the drily amusing Don […]
Director Val Guest’s mostly dull and dreary 1968 British spy thriller Assignment K stars Stephen Boyd in a dull and dreary performance as toy company boss Philip Scott, secretly the head of a British spy […]