English adventurer Captain Skip Morgan (imported American star Forrest Tucker) is contacted by a “Major Hobart” who has an adventurous job for Morgan: go to Hamburg, find the whereabouts of a professor called Pal Kudnic (Arnold Marlé) and smuggle him back to England – all for a generous sum of money.
Taking his shipmate Dusty (Reginald Beckwith) and Lisa (Eva Bartok) – the girl he’s in love with (although it’s not reciprocal) – Morgan crosses the Channel to Hamburg where it soon transpires that a group of Russian thugs are also interested in Kudnic.
Following a helicopter chase, fights with Russian agents, impersonators, and some low key romance, Morgan succeeds in finding Kudnic, a chemist specialising in polymers.
It’s a plodding thriller from the studio that would later become world-renowned as Hammer Films.
Captain Skip Morgan
Forrest Tucker Lisa
Eva Bartok Baron Keller
Marius Goring Major Hobart
Guy Middleton Emile
Eric Pohlmann Professor Pal Kudnic
Arnold Marlé Chief Agent Farquarson
Fred Johnson Colonel Patchway
David King-Wood Dusty
Reginald Beckwith Franz
Guido Lorraine Phoney Kudnic
Marne Maitland Bert
Arthur Lovegrove Keller’s butler
Derek Prentice
Director
Val Guest
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