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Counter-Espionage is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward Dmytryk released in USA on 3 september 1942 with Warren William
Counter-Espionage (1942)
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Add to a movie listCounter-Espionage is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Edward Dmytryk. Counter-Espionage was the ninth film in Columbia's Lone Wolf series, based on characters created by Louis Joseph Vance. It is also known as The Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard.
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In the midst of World War II, Harvey Leeds, working as secretary for the highly reputed British criminologist Sir Stafford Hart in London, is lobbying for a legislature ordering the immediate arrest of all foreign agents staioned in Britain. Harvey is engaged to Sir Stafford’s daughter, Pamela, and is visiting the Hart mansion. He is about to leave the mansion to be with Pamela, who works at an air raid shelter, when he happens upon a briefcase in the foyer. He looks through the briefcase, that belongs to Sir Stafford’s assistant, Kent Wells, before heading out in the night. he doesn’t get far though, but is knocked out by air raid warden Anton Schugg, and thrown into the back of the warden’s ambulance.Actors
Warren William
(Michael Lanyard)
Eric Blore
(Jameson)
Hillary Brooke
(Pamela Hart)
Thurston Hall
(Insp. Crane)
Fred Kelsey
(Dickens)
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