Counterspy

Counterspy

Espionage! Intrigue! Murder!

NR 1953 · 65 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama

While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.

Directed by Vernon Sewell · Written by Guy Elmes

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