The Secret Man **½ (1958, Marshall Thompson, Anne Aubrey, John Loder, John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Magda Miller, Murray Kash) – Classic Movie Review 13,310

The diverting 1958 little old-style British espionage thriller film The Secret Man stars Marshall Thompson, Anne Aubrey and John Loder.

Director Ronald Kinnoch’s diverting 1958 little old-style British espionage thriller film The Secret Man stars Marshall Thompson, Anne Aubrey, John Loder, John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Magda Miller, and Murray Kash.

American physicist Dr Cliff Mitchell (Marshall Thompson) and his fiancée-helper Jill Warren (Anne Aubrey) become part of her army major dad Major Anderson (John Loder)’s British Special Branch’s probe into a mole at a research station in England.

Despite the familiar setup, the plot keeps twisty, tense and taut, the acting is bright, and the film is slickly handled by director Ronald Kinnoch. The screenplay is written by Tony O’Grady (Brian Clemens) and the film’s producer/ director Ronald Kinnoch, based on an original story by Tony O’Grady (Brian Clemens)

The screenplay and original story writer Tony O’Grady is a pseudonym for Avengers man Brian Clemens.

The Secret Man is directed by Ronald Kinnoch, runs 68 minutes, is made by Butcher’s, is released by Anglo-Amalgamated, is written by Tony O’Grady (Brian Clemens) and Ronald Kinnoch, based on an original story by Tony O’Grady (Brian Clemens), is shot by Geoffrey Faithfull, is produced by Ronald Kinnoch, is scored by Albert Elms, and is designed by George Mills.

The cast

The cast are Marshall Thompson as Dr Cliff Mitchell, Anne Aubrey as Jill Warren,  John Loder as Major Anderson, John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Magda Miller, Murray Kash, Michael Melinger, Robert MacKenzie, Bernard Archard, Tom Bowman, Peter Elliott, Stan Simmons, Shirley Thieman, Robert Dorning, Ernest Blyth, Victor Harrington, and Harcourt Curacao.

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