Highly Dangerous

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

The Production Team

Director: Roy Ward Baker.
Producer: Anthony Darnborough.
Script: Eric Ambler.
Cinematography: David Harcourt and Reginald H. Wyer.
Film Editing: Alfred Roome.
Production Design: Alex Vetchinsky.
Costume Department: Julie Harris.
Makeup Department: W.T. Partleton.
Sound: John Cook and Gordon K. McCallum.
Original Music: Richard Addinsell.

The Cast

Margaret Lockwood - Frances Gray
Dane Clark - Bill Casey
Marius Goring - Commandant Anton Razinski
Naunton Wayne - Mr. Hedgerley
Eugene Deckers - Alf
Olaf Pooley - Detective
Wilfrid Hyde-White - Mr. Luke
Ernest Butcher - Tom
Michael Hordern - Lab Director Owens
Jill Balcon - Wardress
Patric Doonan - Customs Man
Anthony Newley - Operator

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.