The Devil's Agent

The Devil's Agent
Belgian poster
Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by	Emmet Dalton
Screenplay by	Robert Westerby
Based on	the novel Im Namen des Teufels by Hans Habe
Starring	Macdonald Carey Peter van Eyck Marianne Koch Christopher Lee
Music by	Philip Green (composed and conducted by)
Cinematography	Gerald Gibbs
Edited by	Tom Simpson
Production company	Emmet Dalton Productions CCC Filmkunst (Berlin)
Distributed by	British Lion Film Corporation (U.K.)
Release dates	September, 1961 (U.K.)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	West Germany/U.K./Ireland
Language	English

The Devil's Agent (German: Im Namen des Teufels) is a 1962 drama film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Christopher Lee and Macdonald Carey.^[1] It was a co-production between Britain, West Germany and the Republic of Ireland. It was based on a novel by Hans Habe. It is set in East Germany during the Cold War.

Plot

Mild-mannered Viennese wine merchant George Droste (Peter van Eyck), an intelligence expert during the second world war, unexpectedly encounters old friend Baron Von Staub (Christopher Lee), 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 Russians, and then retaliating by offering his services to a US intelligence agency.

Partial cast

Peter van Eyck - Droste
Marianne Koch - Nora
Christopher Lee - Baron von Staub
Macdonald Carey - Mr Smith
Albert Lieven - Inspector Huebring
Billie Whitelaw - Piroska
David Knight - Father Zambory
Marius Goring - General Greenhahn
Helen Cherry - Countess Cosimano
Colin Gordon - Count Dezsepalvy
Niall MacGinnis - Paul Vass
Eric Pohlmann - Bloch
Peter Vaughan - Chief of Hungarian Police
Michael Brennan - Horvat
Jeremy Bulloch - Johnny Droste

Critical reception

TV Guide gave it two out of four stars, noting an "Occasionally gripping spy drama with a very good cast."^[2] while Allmovie concluded, "Somewhat lost amidst the flashier James Bond clones of the late 1960s, The Devil's Agent holds up pretty well when seen today."^[3]

References

External links

The Devil's Agent at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs

Paris Plane (1933)
Holiday's End (1937)
Double Exposures (1937)
Night Ride (1937)
Missing, Believed Married (1937)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)
Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
The Saint in London (1939)
Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Spare a Copper (1940)
He Found a Star (1941)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Fools Rush In (1949)
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
Talk of a Million (1951)
Treasure Hunt (1952)
Made in Heaven (1952)
Top of the Form (1953)
Trouble in Store (1953)
Up to His Neck (1954)
One Good Turn (1955)
Man of the Moment (1955)
Jumping for Joy (1956)
Up in the World (1956)
Just My Luck (1957)
The Big Money (1958)
The Square Peg (1959)
Tommy the Toreador (1959)
Sands of the Desert (1960)
A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
The Devil's Agent (1962)

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