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Delayed Action

Dir. John Harlow·1954·58m

Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.

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Delayed Action

Delayed Action (1954)

John Harlow

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58m
Cross-source blend ~58/100

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United Kingdom

Ratings

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5.8/10

6 votes

Rating consensus

58/100 blend

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Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~58/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.

Cast

Robert Ayres

Ned Ellison

June Thorburn

Anne Curlew

Alan Wheatley

Mark Cruden

Bruce Seton

Sellars

Michael Balfour

Honey

Ballard Berkeley

Insp. Crane

Michael Kelly

Lobb

John Horsley

Worsley

Olive Kirby

Angela Bentley

Ian Fleming

Dr. Jepson

Myrtle Reed

Jackie

Dennis Chinnery

Bank cashier

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John Harlow

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