Highly Dangerous – 1950 | 88mins | Thriller | B&W

Plot Synopsis

In Highly Dangerous, Frances (Margaret Lockwood), an entomologist, is sent to a tightly controlled Eastern European country by the British authorities as a spy to find out about a dangerous scientific experiment involving the breeding of insects for use in bacteriological warfare. Her contact is murdered but Frances, under the influence of a truth drug, sees herself as a spy fulfilling the fictional exploits of in a radio serial heroine. Helped by an American journalist, Bill (Dane Clark), she hatches a crazy plan and manages to enter the tightly guarded laboratories and escape with the evidence. The drug wears off and Frances wonders how she did it. Some chuckles and thrills are delivered by a comprehensively silly story.