This low-budget British thriller has Scotland Yard detective Superintendent Cooper-Smith (Stewart Granger doing his best Cary Grant impersonation) investigating a string of robberies and a murder which leads him to the estate of the wealthy but strange Emberday family.
Aristocratic Emberday sisters Trudy (Susan Hampshire) and Livia (Cathleen Nesbitt) share the peaceful surroundings of Emberday Hall with an order of nuns – but Cooper-Smith suspects not all is as it seems.
In fact, the bogus nuns hide melted-down gold bullion inside their own brand of pottery bearing the innocent sign of the Trygon.
Some of the location filming took place at St. Mary’s College in Twickenham, Middlesex.
Supt. Cooper-Smith
Stewart Granger Trudy Emberday
Susan Hampshire Livia Emberday
Cathleen Nesbitt Luke Emberday
James Culliford Sister General
Brigitte Horney Hubert Hamlyn
Robert Morley Sophie
Sophie Hardy Dice
Colin Gordon Emil Clossen
Eddi Arent Sister Clare/Clare O’Connor
Diane Clare Det. Thompson
Allan Cuthbertson White Nun
Caroline Blakiston Black Nun
Richardina Jackson Nailer
Yuri Borienko Pasco
Conrad Monk Sgt. Chivers
Russell Waters Photographic Models
Carmen Dene
Monika Dietrich
Carol Dilworth
Karen Young Sir John (voice)
James Robertson Justice
Director
Cyril Frankel
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Aristocratic Emberday sisters Trudy (Susan Hampshire) and Livia (Cathleen Nesbitt) share the peaceful surroundings of Emberday Hall with an order of nuns – but Cooper-Smith suspects not all is as it seems.
