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The Devil's Agent

  • 1962
  • 1 h 17 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,0/10
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The Devil's Agent (1962)
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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaIn East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.In East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.In East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.

  • Direção
    • John Paddy Carstairs
  • Roteiristas
    • Robert Westerby
    • Hans Habe
    • John Paddy Carstairs
  • Artistas
    • Peter van Eyck
    • Macdonald Carey
    • Marianne Koch
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,0/10
    135
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    • Direção
      • John Paddy Carstairs
    • Roteiristas
      • Robert Westerby
      • Hans Habe
      • John Paddy Carstairs
    • Artistas
      • Peter van Eyck
      • Macdonald Carey
      • Marianne Koch
    • 10Avaliações de usuários
    • 5Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Peter van Eyck
    Peter van Eyck
    • Georg Droste
    Macdonald Carey
    Macdonald Carey
    • Mr. Smith
    Marianne Koch
    Marianne Koch
    • Nora Gulden
    Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    • Baron Ferdi von Staub
    Marius Goring
    Marius Goring
    • Gen. Greenhahn
    Billie Whitelaw
    Billie Whitelaw
    • Piroska Maslov
    Albert Lieven
    Albert Lieven
    • Inspector Paul Huebling
    David Knight
    David Knight
    • Father Zombary
    Helen Cherry
    Helen Cherry
    • Countess Carla Cosimano
    Colin Gordon
    Colin Gordon
    • Count Dezsepalvy
    Niall MacGinnis
    Niall MacGinnis
    • Paul Vass
    Eric Pohlmann
    Eric Pohlmann
    • Bloch
    Peter Vaughan
    Peter Vaughan
    • Chief of Hungarian Police
    Michael Brennan
    • Horvat
    Jeremy Bulloch
    Jeremy Bulloch
    • Johnny Droste
    Peter Cushing
    Peter Cushing
      Bart Bastable
      • Cattle Truck Driver
      • (não creditado)
      Charles Byrne
      • Vazlan
      • (não creditado)
      • Direção
        • John Paddy Carstairs
      • Roteiristas
        • Robert Westerby
        • Hans Habe
        • John Paddy Carstairs
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      patrick-50839

      A Movie with Three Good Performances

      The Devil's Agent is a spy thriller that I thought pleasant viewing, at least the first half of it (it loses momentum after the mid-point), though it never gets very thrilling. The lead is played by Peter Van Eyck, who is really not a good fit as a leading man--too shallow and one-note. When Van Eyck and Christopher Lee bump into each other in a train station in the opening scene, greeting each other as old school chums who are delighted to see each other after these many years, the palpable lack of warmth between these two cold fish can't help but make the scene seem unreal, almost verging on a Saturday Night Live skit.

      In my opinion, there are only four really interesting things about the movie. First, the credits give Hans Habe, the author of the novel that is the source of the picture the TINIEST credit I have ever seen in any movie. This must be an interesting story behind this; he must've done something that really pissed off one of the producers (probably Artur Brauner).

      The three other interesting things are the performances of Billie Whitelaw as a bar girl in a strange Budapest night club, Helen Cherry as Chris Lee's sister, and Marius Goring as a German general. Whitelaw's idiosyncratic performance is a case of a fine actress trying to do more with a stock part than it warrants, so that her sexy-sensitive-enigmatic B-girl seems all but surreal with her unconvincing Hungarian accent, fake laugh and sudden inappropriate smiling it seems too much like a trying-to-do-everything acting class exercise. It's hard to believe that even a naive and horny guy like Van Eyck is playing would not be on his guard against her. The scene ends with her bending over him in a way that is both sexy-maternal and kind of vampirish. Odd as it is, this scene is the highlight of the movie, for me at least. In the same scene, I noticed that when she tells Van Eyck that four people sitting at at nearby table are "the leaders of the Communist Party in Budapest," they make the mistake of cutting in a few shots of them that are almost laughable--four very ordinary looking Irish extras, none of whom look like they could be leaders of anything.

      I will say that director John Paddy Carstairs and art director Tony Inglis do a good job of creating a seedy middle-European ambiance on what must have been a limited budget. The English actress Helen Cherry plays Christopher Lee's dignified but warm and charming older sister with real distinction. The only thing is she maybe expends too much "warmth" toward the cold and remote Van Eyck not to seem a bit suspicious. An interesting performance though.
      5malcolmgsw

      Starts off well but tails off

      This seemed as if this was two separate tv episodes ditched together. The first mainly set in Hungary was reasonably good,but the second dragged on interminably.

      I note that one of the producers was Artur Brauner who i acted for professionally 40 years ago. A remarkable man who escaped the Holocaust,had a prolific film career,and died a few years ago,having reached his centenary.

      The film seemed to be populated with many familiar character actors of the era. Only Sam Kidd was missing. Though Michael Brennan as a Hungarian agent takes some believing.

      . One of the lesser films from the sixties portraying the on going battle between spies frI'm both sides.
      6Bunuel1976

      THE DEVIL'S AGENT (John Paddy Carstairs, 1962) **1/2

      This was another low-budget Christopher Lee movie that I was totally unfamiliar with – in fact, I had initially mistaken it as merely an alternate title for the Edgar Wallace "Krimi" THE DEVIL'S DAFFODIL (1961; which I also recently acquired in tribute to his passing and which I will be getting to presently)!

      That said, the result proved quite a surprise – not least for the remarkable cast its producers managed to hire: Peter Van Eyck in a rare and atypically heroic leading role; Macdonald Carey (who had just supplied the obligatory marquee value to Hammer's extraordinary THESE ARE THE DAMNED {shot 1961 but released 1963}), a one-armed Marius Goring, Walter Gotell, Albert Lieven (also from THE DEVIL'S DAFFODIL and who had himself assumed the central part for director Carstairs' SLEEPING CAR TO TRIESTE {1948}), Marianne Koch, Niall MacGinnis, Eric Pohlmann, Peter Vaughan and Billie Whitelaw. Incidentally, the IMDb claims that Peter Cushing was also involved but had his scenes deleted – however, I doubt this, since that same site also gives the running-time as 77 minutes…while my "Something Weird Video"(!) print clocks in at 97! As for Lee, though his role is fairly brief, it is the one that sets the protagonist on his globe-trotting doom-laden path.

      Indeed, the film is an episodic Cold War thriller (the title, then, boasts no occult underpinning but merely refers to Van Eyck's precarious status within the narrative as a spy working both sides!) made before the subgenre's heyday, which kicked off around 1965; with this in mind, the plot line is predictably convoluted and decidedly short on action, yet the whole emerges a reasonably suspenseful outing just the same – complete with an unexpected downbeat 'curtain'. Interestingly, nominal leading lady Koch's best-known role was similarly a damsel-in-distress saved by a double-faced hero, albeit against a Wild West setting, i.e. Sergio Leone's seminal A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)!
      6The_Dying_Flutchman

      On the Other Side of Hades

      This flick is a passable representation of what one can call an "economical espionager". Something like what Sean Connery's wayward son Jason might have made if he beat his dad to the punch. It was co-produced by any number of countries, but mostly friendly ones, after-all, it was the early 1960's. Directed by John Paddy Carstairs of British B movie fame who did films like George Sanders "The Saint in London" which was a rarity for the time because it was shot on location. Its all about a Viennese wine merchant becoming a double agent for the United States. The agent is ably played by German and/or Dutch actor Peter Van Eyck, I've never been able to tell what his true nationality was. He gets suckered into the profession by Russian brutes and in those years they were the biggest and baddest of the bads. The cast is good for the time and offered it some good scenery chewing. Macdonald Carey, Mr. Stone Face as usual, Christopher Lee, minus fangs, Billie Whitelaw, a sweetener for certain and Marius Goring doing a dance with numerous demons. "The Devil's Agent" holds up OK though its past is definitely passed.
      7jaredprophet

      I think Peter Cushing is the passed out drunk

      The Devil's Agent (1962) is often listed as one of the 24 film is in which both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing both appear. The Curse of Frankenstein, The Horror of Dracula, Horror Express and more...

      But there appears to be an open question as to if Peter Cushing is actually in this movie. According to blog posts I've read, press reports of the time had Peter Cushing having been signed to the production.

      One of the factors of this being an open question is that this movie is not easy to get a hold of. Sinister Cinema did release this on DVD-R, and the movie did get an official DVD release in Germany. I'm unsure if these are still available. The movie is not on any streaming service or VOD platform in the US. It does appear to currently be on the Internet Archive, but how long it lasts there is uncertain.

      Having seen it on Archive, I would posit that the drunk passed out at the table in the bar with a woman who gives him looks before leaving, could very possibly be Peter Cushing.

      The hair line of the drunk very much looks like the hair line of Peter Cushing.

      Why Peter Cushing isn't in the movie more is a mystery that we may never know the answer to. Apparently when asked about the movie many years later, the super busy actor had no memory of the production. There is likely no one still alive who could possibly know the answer.

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        • setembro de 1962 (Reino Unido)
      • Países de origem
        • Irlanda
        • Reino Unido
        • Alemanha Ocidental
      • Idioma
        • Inglês
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      • Locações de filme
        • Dublin, County Dublin, Irlanda
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      • Tempo de duração
        • 1 h 17 min(77 min)
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