Movie

Counterspy

Released: July 27, 1953 (1953)

Runtime: 65 minutes

Genres: Drama

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.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Frederick Schrecker as Plattnaur
Age at release: 61
Hermione Baddeley as Madame Del Mar
Age at release: 46
Hugh Latimer as Inspector Barlow
Age at release: 40
Archie Duncan as Jim Fenton
Age at release: 39
John Penrose as Paulson
Age at release: 39
Alexander Gauge as Smith
Age at release: 38
Bill Travers as Rex
Age at release: 31
Dermot Walsh as Frank Manning
Age at release: 28
Hazel Court as Clare Manning
Age at release: 27
James Vivian as Larry Fenton
Age at release: Unknown

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Maxwell Foster as Dr. Stevenson
Age at release: 53
Monti DeLyle as Dance Director
Age at release: 53
Howard Lang as Policeman
Age at release: 42
Beryl Baxter as Plattnauer's Accomplice
Age at release: 27
Gwen Bacon as Matron
Age at release: Unknown