Master Spy

Master Spy
US release film poster
Directed by	Montgomery Tully
Produced by	Maurice J. Wilson
Screenplay by	Maurice J. Wilson Montgomery Tully
Based on	They Also Serve by Gerald Anstruther and Paul White
Starring	Stephen Murray June Thorburn Alan Wheatley John Carson
Music by	Ken Thorne
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by	Eric Boyd-Perkins
Production company	Eternal Films
Distributed by	Grand National Pictures (UK)
Release date	1963
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Master Spy is a 1963 British spy film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Stephen Murray, June Thorburn and Alan Wheatley.^[1]

Plot

Scientist Boris Turganev (Murray) defects from the U.S.S.R. and goes to a top-secret establishment to work for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors at a government nuclear research lab believe he is there to work and not as a spy, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy. But what exactly is that mission?

Partial cast

• Stephen Murray as Boris Turganev
• June Thorburn as Leila
• Alan Wheatley as Paul Skelton
• John Carson as Richard Colman
• John Bown as John Baxter
• Jack Watson as Captain Foster
• Ernest Clark as Doctor Pembury
• Peter Gilmore as Tom Masters
• Marne Maitland as Doctor Asafu
• Ellen Pollock as Doctor Morrell
• Hugh Morton as Sir Gilbert Saunders
• Basil Dignam as Richard Horton
• Victor Beaumont as Petrov
• Hamilton Dyce as Airport Controller
• Michael Peake as Barnes
• Derek Francis as Police Inspector (uncredited)

Critical reception

• The New York Times called the film, "a TEPID, square-cut espionage drama."^[2]
• AllMovie wrote, "While only 71 minutes, Master Spy has enough plot twists for a library-full of Fleming and LeCarre."^[3]

References

External links

• Master Spy on IMDb