Delayed Action
1954, English. Directed by John Harlow.
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.
- Runtime
- 0h 58m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 1 July 1954
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Geoffrey Orme
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Delayed Action runs 58 minutes (0h 58m).
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Who directed Delayed Action?
Delayed Action (1954) was directed by John Harlow and stars Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley.