'AGENT 8 3/4' AND 'UNDERWORLD INFORMERS' SHOWN TOGETHER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300290009-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

OCT. 1 4 1965
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`Agent 8%4' and `Underworld Informers' Shown Together
rpHE two British arrivals The Casts world Informers" is as grimy,
J esterda on a circuit' head-on and direct as a loco-
Y Y AGENT 8s, screenplay by Lukas Heller; - motive--a cheap one, granted.
dou
This low-budget melodrama,
stealthy llscrambles, couldn't dBetty E. Buoo; Thomas; pbyduWai by
be more opposite in treat- Roade-Stcrimg, Inc., through Continental starring Nigel Patrick, is
ment. "Agent 8'/4 ," sure Runningrirlime; 98 minute ood'heatars._ basically pulp-fiction 1 stuff,
enough, is still another take- Nicolas5 Whistler ::::::::::Svliva Ko dna telling how a framed Scot
;off on the James Bond yarns, Colonel Cunllfle ..........Robert Morley land Yard sleuth clears out a
starring Dirk Bo arde as a Slmenova ................... Leo McKern nest of London underworld-
!starring ......Roger
Delgado lings.
rather dim-wited civilian air- ANb
,ily whisked to Prague for UNDERWORLD co N FO MERS,oscreenplay l 0
by' Douglas, Warner; ' directed by Ken
some. British Intelligence This unimportant film has
snooping. The other half of andare easeddby dCont William DisQieut- three solid attributes: the
yesterday's bill was "Under- inn. At neighborhood thdaters. Running scroungy ambiance of a sleazy,
world Informers," not nearly ChiefeInspecto Johnnoe ....Nigel Patrick `'back-alley world, a suspense-
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as flat as that title sounds. Charlie Ruskin .............Co
y ful story line that gathers up
'The two titles, in fact, Maisie . . . ..,,...;...Margaret Whiting
Berne Ha ..............Derren Nesbitt all the characters into a?
most precisely peg the tone Leon RaSale i ..................Frank Finlay churning whirlpool, and two
and content of each feature. SJim uperintendent Bostwick ..Harry Andrews nifty performances by Colin
We'll take little No, 2. The Mary Johnnoe .......Catherine Woodville Blakely, as, a revengeful junk
bigger, more expensive one- dealer, and Margaret Whiting, ...
-Mr. Bogardc's vehicle-is a a flinty prostitute. There's
slick, bland shuffling of drol- itself, which is splendidly pie- as
a marvelous lintp bit , ine There's
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aery and suspense, not espe- turesque in excellent color.. curious cat and a crucial kea?u
cially new, at least by now, The scenery also includes that Hitchcock would drool
'nor really funny. Most of the Sylva Koscina, who appeared over. The director, Ken Anna-.4
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the Intelligence chief. also an alumnus of Bond
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