Delayed Action
5.6
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.
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Cast
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Robert Ayres
Ned Ellison
Known for
A Night to Remember
First Man into Space
June Thorburn
Anne Curlew
Known for
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Tom Thumb
Alan Wheatley
Mark Cruden
Known for
Brighton Rock
Caesar and Cleopatra
Bruce Seton
Sellars
Known for
Whisky Galore!
Gorgo
Michael Balfour
Honey
Known for
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Candleshoe
Ballard Berkeley
Insp. Crane
Known for
Fawlty Towers
The BFG
Michael Kelly
Lobb
Also in
The Belles of St Trinian's
Folly to Be Wise
John Horsley
Worsley
Known for
Sink the Bismarck!
Hell Drivers
Olive Kirby
Angela Bentley
Also in
Nothing But the Best
The Embezzler
Ian Fleming
Dr. Jepson
Also in
Silver Blaze
The Prisoner
Myrtle Reed
Jackie
Also in
The Eyes of Annie Jones
The Slipper and the Rose
Dennis Chinnery
Bank cashier
Known for
The Plague of the Zombies
John Harlow Director · Geoffrey Orme Screenplay Gerald Gibbs Cinematographer
First release July 1, 1954 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Kenilworth Film Productions
Production
United Kingdom
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · July 1, 1954
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No release date listed for United States.
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