The Devil's Agent
The Devil's Agent | |
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Directed by | John Paddy Carstairs |
Screenplay by | Robert Westerby |
Based on | the novel Im Namen des Teufels by Hans Habe |
Produced by | Emmet Dalton |
Starring | Macdonald Carey Peter van Eyck Marianne Koch Christopher Lee |
Cinematography | Gerald Gibbs |
Edited by | Tom Simpson |
Music by | Philip Green (composed and conducted by) |
Production companies | Emmet Dalton Productions CCC Filmkunst (Berlin) |
Distributed by | British Lion Film Corporation (U.K.) |
Release dates | September, 1962 (U.K.) |
Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | West Germany/U.K./Ireland |
Language | English |
The Devil's Agent (German: Im Namen des Teufels) is a 1962 drama film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Christopher Lee and Macdonald Carey.[1] It was a co-production between Britain, West Germany and the Republic of Ireland. It was based on a 1956 novel by Hans Habe. It is set in East Germany during the Cold War.
Plot
Mild-mannered Viennese wine merchant George Droste (Peter van Eyck), an intelligence expert during the Second World War, unexpectedly encounters old friend Baron Von Staub (Christopher Lee), and spends a weekend with him on his estate in the Soviet zone. The two revive a friendship interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub's sister asks Droste to transport a small package to a friend in West Germany, the bewildered Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games, at first becoming an unwilling dupe for the Soviet Union, and then retaliating by offering his services to a US intelligence agency.
Partial cast
- Peter van Eyck as Droste
- Marianne Koch as Nora
- Christopher Lee as Baron von Staub
- Macdonald Carey as Mr Smith
- Albert Lieven as Inspector Huebring
- Billie Whitelaw as Piroska
- David Knight as Father Zambory
- Marius Goring as General Greenhahn
- Helen Cherry as Countess Cosimano
- Colin Gordon as Count Dezsepalvy
- Niall MacGinnis as Paul Vass
- Eric Pohlmann as Bloch
- Peter Vaughan as Chief of Hungarian Police
- Michael Brennan as Horvat
- Jeremy Bulloch as Johnny Droste
Critical reception
TV Guide gave it two out of four stars, noting an "Occasionally gripping spy drama with a very good cast."[2] while Allmovie concluded, "Somewhat lost amidst the flashier James Bond clones of the late 1960s, The Devil's Agent holds up pretty well when seen today."[3]
References
External links
- The Devil's Agent at IMDb
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