
Diabolique
1955


“MOST THRILLING PICTURE SINCE "HOUSE ON 92ND STREET"!”
20 votes
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
Director
Alfred L. WerkerWriters
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies

Were it not for the oppressive and seriously condescending narrative this might have been quite a decent little fifth-columnist drama. Karel Stepanek is "Laschenko", the communist mastermind behind a plot to force renowned scientist "Prof. Kafer" (a very unlikely Finlay Currie) to reveal some top secret data about a project he is working on. The remainder of the plot is presented almost like a Q and A. The characters pose the questions and the infallible GI men have all the answers, they have all the state of the art kit (some on which looked like it had been drawn at kindergarten) and they al…
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