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Dick Barton at Bay (1950) Movie Reviews

Dick Barton at Bay (1950)

director of photography: Stanley Clinton
cast: Don StannardTamara DesniMeinhart MaurJoyce LindenPercy WalshCampbell SingerRichard GeorgeBeatrice Kane
director: Godfrey Grayson
running time: 64 min.
synopsis
David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse districtpursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard)but before he can reporta shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new developmenta ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur)a foreign agent from Eastern Europeas part of a largermuch more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnappedand Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).