Screenplay:
Nigel BalchinCast:
Ian Bannen, Peter Cushing, Thorley Walters, Donald Pleasence, Spike Milligan, Brian Oulton, Geoffrey Bayldon, Murray Melvin, Virginia Maskell (more)Plots(1)
Peter Cushing stars as the head of a research team steamrollered into silence by officialdom in this Cold War thriller from the Boulting Brothers. When he and his research team discover a cure for both typhus and bubonic plague, Professor Sewell is appalled to find their results gagged under the Official Secrets Act. Conflict is immediate the research team want their findings to benefit mankind, but officialdom are convinced that, in the wrong hands, it could be used as a weapon of war! (Network)
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Ian Bannen
UK
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Peter Cushing
UK
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Thorley Walters
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Donald Pleasence
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Spike Milligan
India
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Brian Oulton
UK
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Geoffrey Bayldon
UK
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Murray Melvin
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Virginia Maskell
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Raymond Huntley
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Anthony Booth
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Basil Dignam
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Andre Charisse
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Bruce Wightman
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Sam Kydd
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Ian Wilson
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Tony Britton
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Charles Gilliard
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