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Delayed Action (1954)
Directed by John Harlow
Overview
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.
Length 58 minutes
Actors
Robert Ayres | June Thorburn | Alan Wheatley | Bruce Seton | Michael Balfour | Ballard Berkeley | Michael Kelly | John Horsley | Olive Kirby | Ian Fleming | Myrtle Reed | Dennis Chinnery | Charles Lamb