Rough Shoot – 1953 | 88 mins | Thriller | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Suspenseful espionage thriller scripted by Eric Ambler from the Geoffrey Household novel A Rough Shoot, the Hitchcockian story does not have much credibility and the plot becomes confused as the film develops.

US Army colonel stationed in England, Robert Taine (Joel McCrea), rents a house in Dorset and takes-up rough shooting. While out shooting, Taine fires a charge of buckshot at a supposed poacher and believes he has accidentally killed the man. The poacher is in reality a spy and was shot by an unseen marksman. Attempting to sort out the unpleasant business, Taine hides the body, and inadvertently gets caught up with a spy ring engaged in passing atomic secrets to the Russians. Taine discovers some aircraft beacons concealed on his shoot, and gets involved with helping Sandorski (Herbert Lom) and Randall (Roland Culver) of the British Secret Service to unravel the web of intrigue. The foreign spies are finally rounded up in an explosive battle at Madame Tussaud’s waxworks museum.