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6.0

British Intelligence

NR·1939·61m

Action

Adventure

Action

Adventure

Summary

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

Cast

Boris Karloff

Valdar

Margaret Lindsay

Helene von Lorbeer

Bruce Lester

Frank Bennett

Leonard Mudie

James Yeats

Holmes Herbert

Arthur Bennett

Austin Fairman

George Bennett

William Bailey

British Intelligence Agent

Louise Brien

Miss Risdon - Bennett's Secretary

Glen Cavender

Under Officer Pfalz

David Cavendish

Capt. Lanark

Joe De Stefani

German Officer

Carlos De Valdez

Von Ritter

Clarence Derwent

Milkman

Arno Frey

German Junior Officer

Frederick Giermann

Otto Kurtz

Lawrence Grant

Brigadier General

Carl Harbaugh

German Soldier

Sam Harris

Cabinet Minister

Winifred Harris

Mrs. Maude Bennett

Leyland Hodgson

Lord Sudbury

Stuart Holmes

Luchow - German Soldier

Willy Kaufman

German Corporal

Crauford Kent

Cmdr. Phelps

Morton Lowry

Lt. Borden

Lester Matthews

Henry Thompson

Frank Mayo

Brixton - Intelligence Agent

Paul Panzer

Peasant

John J. Richardson

Cockney Soldier

Ferdinand Schumann-Heink

German Officer

Hans Schumm

German Senior Officer

John Graham Spacey

Crichton - Intelligence Agent

Robert R. Stephenson

Cockney Soldier

Evan Thomas

Maj. Andrews

David Thursby

Agent Reporting Strengler's Identity

Frederick Vogeding

Baron Kuglar

Leonard Willey

Capt. Stuart

Maris Wrixon

Dorothy Bennett

Henry Zynda

German

Crew

Director

Terry O. Morse

Screenplay

Lee Katz

Theatre Play

Anthony Paul Kelly

Reviews

Geronimo1967

June 23, 2022

On the face of it, this is just another wartime espionage story where the ending is never really in any doubt. Actually, though, the plot is a bit more interesting. Set during WWI, Margaret Lindsay ("Helene von Lorbeer") is sent to London, to the home of Cabinet Minister "Arthur Bennett" (Holmes Herbert), where she is to rendezvous with his already treacherous butler "Valdar" (Boris Karloff). Once there, we embark on the usual round of who to trust/not to trust storylines as they try to get hold of secret war plans. What stands it out a bit is that is has a certain propheticism about it: it isn't so much telling us the tale set in 1917, but one of the likely pitfalls of megalomania and unbridled ambition in the future; clearly a reference to events looming in 1940 when this was released. It's watchable enough, the small cast is tightly knitted and perform well; the writing does it's job fine and Terry Morse kept me interested for an hour.