Suspect

1960
1h 21m

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Ian Bannen, Peter Cushing, Tony Britton, and Virginia Maskell in Suspect (1960)

UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military-biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power.UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military-biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power.UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military-biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power.

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6.1/10

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Trivia
Not released in the UK until September 1962 when it went out on the ABC circuit as a supporting film to Val Guest's Le mystère de la villa blanche (1962).

Goofs
Two location street scenes feature a very-poor mock-up of a British phone-box: light, flimsy and apparently made of wood, at one point it visibly wobbles - and the door-closer has almost no force to it. Quite unlike the heavy rock-solid real thing that needs you to heave on the door to open it.

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Referenced in Scène de crime: Murder on 42nd St. (2021)

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7/10

Unusual film from the Boultings

This is a film that was made by the Boultings at about the time they were preparing I'm Alright Jack.It contains some pretty odd characters.Virginia Maskell who was engaged to amputee Ian Bannen but is still living with him.Bannen himself playing the amputee who for some reason has to have most things done for him despite the fact that even in the sixties prosthetic limbs were available.There is also the secret service portrayed by Nigel Stock as bumbling but effective.At the time this film was made the country was getting over the shock of the defections to Russia and the errors made by the secret service.Donald Pleasance is effective as the seedy go between.Peter Cushing also stands out as the head of the department,whilst Tony Britton makes the best of a rather thankless role.A very interest and almost unknown film.