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Director
  
Montgomery Tully

Country
  
United Kingdom

5.4/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Master Spy movie poster

Release date
  
1964

Based on
  
They Also Serve by Gerald Anstruther and Paul White

Writer
  
Maurice J. Wilson (screenplay), Montgomery Tully (screenplay), Gerald Anstruther (story), Paul White (story)

Master Spy is a 1963 British spy film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Stephen Murray, June Thorburn and Alan Wheatley.

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Plot

Scientist Boris Turganev (Murray) has defected from Russia and is now working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors at a government nuclear research lab believe he's there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy. But what exactly is that mission?

Partial cast

  • Stephen Murray as Boris Turganev
  • June Thorburn as Leila
  • Alan Wheatley as Paul Skelton
  • John Carson as Richard Colman
  • John Bown as John Baxter
  • Jack Watson as Captain Foster
  • Ernest Clark as Doctor Pembury
  • Peter Gilmore as Tom Masters
  • Marne Maitland as Doctor Asafu
  • Ellen Pollock as Doctor Morrell
  • Hugh Morton as Sir Gilbert Saunders
  • Basil Dignam as Richard Horton
  • Victor Beaumont as Petrov
  • Hamilton Dyce as Airport Controller
  • Michael Peake as Barnes
  • Derek Francis as Police Inspector (uncredited)

    • Critical reception

  • The New York Times called the film, "a TEPID, square-cut espionage drama."
  • AllMovie wrote, "While only 71 minutes, Master Spy has enough plot twists for a library-full of Fleming and LeCarre."

    • References

    Master Spy Wikipedia
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    Master Spy IMDb Master Spy themoviedb.org


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