Highly Dangerous

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.

Cast

Margaret Lockwood

as Frances Gray

Dane Clark

as Bill Casey

Marius Goring

as Commandant Anton Razinski

Naunton Wayne

as Mr. Hedgerley

Wilfrid Hyde-White

as Mr. Luke

Eugene Deckers

as Alf

Olaf Pooley

as Detective-Interrogator

Gladys Henson

as Attendant

Paul Hardtmuth

as Priest

Michael Hordern

as Lab Director Owens

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Margaret Lockwood is a scientist ("Frances Gray") who is asked by the British government to travel to the Balkans to discovers whether the communists there are trying to weaponise the humble fruit fly! Initially nervous, she takes courage from a radio serial that she listens to for her young nephew,...

Similar Movies

Defence of the Realm

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.

⭐ 6.4

All the President's Men

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

⭐ 7.7

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

⭐ 7.5

While the City Sleeps

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

⭐ 6.9

The Lawless

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

⭐ 5.8

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

⭐ 7.1

The Angry Hills

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.

⭐ 4.4

Manhattan Night

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

⭐ 5.9

Shakedown

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

⭐ 6.2

Headline Hunters

A rookie reporter in pursuit of an expose gets tangled up with big-time mobsters.

⭐ 3.8

The Paperboy

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

⭐ 5.5

Silent Partner

A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.

⭐ 0.0

The Witness Vanishes

In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.

⭐ 6.2

Bulldog Edition

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.

⭐ 2.3

The Delavine Affair

Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.

⭐ 5.0

The Front Page

Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.

⭐ 7.3

Ace in the Hole

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

⭐ 7.9

South of Dixie

To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.

⭐ 0.0

Her Kind of Man

A nightclub singer can't choose between a charismatic small-time gangster and an honest newspaperman.

⭐ 5.9

Special Agent

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

⭐ 6.2