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Dick Barton at Bay

Dick Barton at Bay

With one bound Dick was free

19503.81h 4m

Overview

David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).

Directed by Godfrey Grayson
Written by Olafur Haukar Grayson, Jackson Budd, Emma Trechman
Produced by Henry Halstead
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Top Cast

Don Stannard

Don Stannard

Dick Barton

Tamara Desni

Tamara Desni

Anna

M

Meinhart Maur

Serge Volkoff

J

Joyce Linden

Mary Mitchell

P

Percy Walsh

Professor Mitchell

Campbell Singer

Campbell Singer

Inspector Cavendish

R

Richard George

Inspector Slade

B

Beatrice Kane

Betsy Horrock

G

George Crawford

Boris

P

Paddy Ryan

Fingers

Themes & Keywords

detectivelighthousedeath ray

About Dick Barton at Bay

Dick Barton at Bay is a adventure, crime, family, science fiction film released in 1950 exploring themes of detective, lighthouse, death ray. Directed by Godfrey Grayson, it stars Don Stannard, Tamara Desni, Meinhart Maur. David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).

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