Delayed Action (1954)

  • NR
  • 07/01/1954 (GB)
  • Crime
  • 58m

Overview

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.

Geoffrey Orme

Screenplay

John Harlow

Director

Cast

Robert Ayres's headshot

Robert Ayres

Ned Ellison
June Thorburn's headshot

June Thorburn

Anne Curlew
Alan Wheatley's headshot

Alan Wheatley

Mark Cruden
Bruce Seton's headshot

Bruce Seton

Sellars
Michael Balfour's headshot

Michael Balfour

Honey
Ballard Berkeley's headshot

Ballard Berkeley

Insp. Crane
Michael Kelly's headshot

Michael Kelly

Lobb
John Horsley's headshot

John Horsley

Worsley

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