Delayed Action (1954)
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
Director:
John Harlow
Writer:
Geoffrey Orme
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Robert Ayres as Ned Ellison |
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June Thorburn as Anne Curlew |
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Alan Wheatley as Mark Cruden |
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Bruce Seton as Sellars |
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Michael Balfour as Honey |
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Ballard Berkeley as Insp. Crane |
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Michael Kelly as Lobb |
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John Horsley as Worsley |
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Olive Kirby as Angela Bentley |
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Ian Fleming as Dr. Jepson |
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Myrtle Reed as Jackie |
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Dennis Chinnery as Bank cashier |
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Charles Lamb as Bank clerk |
| Production | Robert S. Baker | Producer |
| Editing | Bill Lewthwaite | Editor |
| Directing | Johnny Goodman | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anne Box | Hairstylist |
| Directing | Gwen Endsleigh | Continuity |
| Camera | Gerald Gibbs | Director of Photography |
| Production | George Fowler | Production Manager |
| Art | C. Wilfred Arnold | Art Direction |
| Sound | George Burgess | Sound Supervisor |
| Production | Monty Berman | Producer |
| Sound | Cecil Thornton | Sound Recordist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Freddie Williamson | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Noel Rowland | Camera Operator |
| Writing | Geoffrey Orme | Screenplay |
| Directing | John Harlow | Director |