ID

FBW000989      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1942

Original Title

Counter-Espionage

Other Title(s)

The Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard

Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Produced by

Columbia Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Wallace MacDonald; Executive producer: Irving Briskin; Assistent director: George Rhein; Script: Aubrey Wisberg; Based on: Louis Joseph Vanca; Camera: Philip Tannura; Editing: Gene Havlick; Sound: Edward Bernds; Art direction: Lionel Banks, Robert Peterson (Associate Art Director); Music based on themes by: Ben Oakland (Stock Music); Musical direction: Morris W. Stoloff

Cast

Warren William (Michael Lanyard, also known as The Lone Wolf); Eric Blore (Jamison); Hillary Brooke (Pamela Hart); Thurston Hall (Inspector Crane); Fred Kelsey (Detective Wesley Dickens); Forrest Tucker (Anton Schugg); Matthew Boulton (Inspector Stephens); Kurt Katch (Gustave Soessel); Morton Lowry (Kurt Weil, alias Kent Wells); Leslie Denison (Harvey Leeds); Billy Bevan (George Barrow); Eddie Hall (Bombing Fire Spectator); Stanley Logan (Sir Stafford Hart); Tom Stevenson (Police Constable Hopkins); Eddie Laughton (Heinrich, orchestra leader); Clyde Cook (Huckster); Keith Hitchcock (Air Warden Williams); Wyndham Standing (The Maitre-de); William von Brincken (als: William Vaughn) (Von Ruhoff); William Yetter, Sr. (German Telegrapher); Frank Baker (Squadman); Herbert Clifton (Squadman); Eric Wilton (Thomas); Guy Kingsford (Carter); Robert Hale (Newspaper Vendor); Heather Wilde (Gertie)

Length

1971 m / 72'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 10 Apr 1942-28 Apr 1942: Shooting period
- 03 Sep 1942: Copyright LP11605
- 26 Sep 1942: Premiere, New York, NY (Rialto)
- 26 Sep 1942: Release date, New York, NY (Rialto)

Remarks

1. "Counter Espionage" war der 9. "Lone Wolf"-Film in einer Serie von 15 Filmen, die die Columbia Pictures Corporation von 1935-1949 produzierte.

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording
- PCA Cert. No.: 8408

Abstract

The "Lone Wolf" Michael Lanyard is summoned to London in the middle of the Blitzkrieg in order to protect military plans there from falling into the hands of German spies.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); London; Espionage; World War II

Distributor

Columbia Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY (initially)

Bibliography

- , in: Box Office, 12.09.1942
- Pryor, Thomas M. (als: T.M.P.): "At the Rialto", in: The New York Times, 28.09.1942
- Wear.: "Counter-Espionage", in: Variety, 30.09.1942
- , in: Motion Picture Herald (New York, NY), Vol. 149, Nr. 2, 10.10.1942
- , in: Today's Cinema, Vol. 59, Nr. 4801, 13.11.1942
- , in: Kinematograph Weekly (London), Nr. 1857, 19.11.1942
- , The Hollywood Reporter, 17.12.1942
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987
- Fischer, Robert (Hg.): Edward Dmytryk. Film Director. Essen: Edition Filmwerkstatt, 1990
- Martin, Len D: The Columbia Checklist. The Feature Films, Serials, Cartoons and Short Subjects of Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1922-1988. Jefferson, NC / London: McFarland, 1991