The Devil's Agent (1962)

Directors

John Paddy Carstairs

Cast

Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Macdonald Carey, Christopher Lee, Albert Lieven, Billie Whitelaw, Marius Goring, Helen Cherry, Colin Gordon, Niall MacGinnis, Eric Pohlmann, Peter Vaughan, Michael Brennan, Jeremy Bulloch, Walter Gotell, Paul Hubschmid, Jeffrey O'Kelly

The story

Mild-mannered Viennese wine merchant George Droste, an intelligence expert during the Second World War, unexpectedly encounters old friend Baron Von Staub, and spends a weekend with him on his estate in the Soviet zone. The two revive a friendship interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub's sister asks Droste to transport a small package to a friend in West Germany, the bewildered Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games, at first becoming an unwilling dupe for the Soviet Union, and then retaliating by offering his services to a US intelligence agency.

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