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The Devil's Agent

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Wikipedia article




'The Devil's Agent' is a 1962 drama film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Christopher Lee and Macdonald Carey.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114172606/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/291 BFI.org] It was a co-production between Britain, West Germany and the Republic of Ireland. It was based on a 1956 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 Soviet Union, and then retaliating by offering his services to a US intelligence agency.

Partial cast



* Peter van Eyck as Droste

* Marianne Koch as Nora

* Christopher Lee as Baron von Staub

* Macdonald Carey as Mr Smith

* Albert Lieven as Inspector Huebring

* Billie Whitelaw as Piroska

* David Knight as Father Zambory

* Marius Goring as General Greenhahn

* Helen Cherry as Countess Cosimano

* Colin Gordon as Count Dezsepalvy

* Niall MacGinnis as Paul Vass

* Eric Pohlmann as Bloch

* Peter Vaughan as Chief of Hungarian Police

* Michael Brennan as Horvat

* Jeremy Bulloch as Johnny Droste

Critical reception



'TV Guide' gave it two out of four stars, noting an "Occasionally gripping spy drama with a very good cast." 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."

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