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Highly Dangerous (Original title)
Dates: 1950 (Copyright), 08 January 1951 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Roy Baker

Synopsis: Spy Melodrama set in a Ruritanian country. An entymologist is sent on a secret mission to Eastern Europe to analyse some insects being bred by the enemy to spread disease.

Genre:
Drama

Subjects:
Espionage, Insects
Releases
Date: 1950Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 88 mins Length: 7967 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specifiedRuntime: 84 mins 48 secs - Distributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (46)
©: Two Cities Films, a Two Cities film: Two Cities Films, Presents: The J. Arthur Rank Organisation, released through: General Film Distributors, Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Produced by: Antony Darnborough, Production Manager: Billy Boyle, Production Controller: Arthur Alcott, Assistant Director: Roy Goddard, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Peter Manley, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Rory Gowans, [Continuity]: Yvonne Axworthy, [Assistant Continuity]: Pauline Kernick, [Casting]: Weston Drury Jr, Written by: Eric Ambler, Lighting Cameraman: Reginald Wyer, Camera Operator: David Harcourt, [Focus Puller]: Peter Allwork, [Clapper Loader]: Tom Friswell, [Floor Stills]: Bill Wood, Special Effects: Jimmy Snow, Editor: Alfred Roome, Art Director: Vetchinsky, [Property Master]: Bert Gaiters, [Property Buyer]: Chris Chapman, [Construction Manager]: Albert Jempson, Dress Designer: Julie Harris, [Ladies' Wardrobe]: Dorothy Edwards, [Men's Wardrobe]: Bob Raynor, Make-up: W.T. Partleton, [Hairdresser]: Biddy Chrystal, Music Composed by: Richard Addinsell, [Music] Played by: The Philharmonia Orchestra, [Music] Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Recordist: John Cook, Gordon Mccallum, [Sound Camera Operator]: George Willows, Sound System: Western Electric, [Boom Operator]: Robert T. MacPhee, [Assistant Boom Operator]: Peter Durbridge, [1st Assistant Dubbing Mixer]: Peter T. Davies, [Publicity Manager]: Ken Green, [Unit Publicist]: Ray Cunnington, Made at: Pinewood Studios, logo: D&P Studios
Cast (32)
Margaret Lockwood (Frances Gray), Dane Clark (Bill Casey), Marius Goring (Police Chief Anton Razinski), Naunton Wayne (Hedgerley), Wilfrid Hyde White (Mr Luke, British charge d'affaires), Eugene Deckers (Alf), Olaf Pooley (Razinski's assistant), Gladys Henson (snack bar attendant), Paul Hardtmuth (priest), Michael Hordern (Rawlings, director of laboratory), George Benson (customer in snack bar), Eric Pohlmann (Joe, barman of Café Mimosa), John Horsley (senior customs officer), Patric Doonan (customs man), Joan Haythorne (Judy), Ernest Butcher ([Tom]), Anthony Newley ([air transport agent]), Hamilton Humphries ([voice of Conway's announcer]), Noël Johnson ([voice of Frank Conway]), Lance Secretan ([Alan]), Toni Frost ([air hostess]), Wolf Frees ([sinister man at Zovgorod station]), Marga Ekhart ([fat woman at Zovgorod station]), Philo Hauser ([waiter at Café Mimosa]), Paul Demel ([Hotel Grand Ritz receptionist]), Jill Balcon ([wardress]), Ferdy Mayne ([check point guard, night]), Ewen Solon ([scientist with hay fever]), Leo Bieber ([chess player]), Michael Ritterman ([Razinski's agent]), John Gabriel ([officer at field telephone]), Anton Diffring ([militiaman at frontier station])