Dick Barton Collection

Don Stannard

George Ford

Jack Shaw

Gillian Maude

Geoffrey Wincott

Farnham Baxter

Morris Sweden

Beatrice Kane

Arthur Bush

Ivor Danvers

Ernest Borrow

Colin Douglas

Janice Lowthian

Alec Ross

Campbell Singer

Peter Brace

Jim Brady

Eddie Powell

John Bath

Edgar Blatt

Eric Veendam

Alfred J. Goulding

Alan Stranks

Henry Halstead

Stanley Clinton

Etta Simpson

James Marchant

Action

Crime

Comedy

Dick Barton: Special Agent

Henry Halstead Productions

Hammer Film Productions

United Kingdom

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The premiss for this is quite good - a disparate gang of Nazi spies plotting to poison the London water supply. Only the eponymous special agent (Don Stannard) can track down the conspirators and thwart their plan... Well, aside from the instantly recognisable John Bath theme tune, this is really just a series of radio sketches with a camera in front of the actors. Indeed, all that is actually missing is the sound effects man with the coconut shells and the washboard. It flows like glue, and lumpy glue at that - and although the story itself is actually quite good, the execution here is really unremarkable. The last ten minutes redeem it slightly, at least things are happening, but otherwise it's a film to watch only if you are really bored

English

Introduction to Dick Barton Special Agent (1948) with Robert J.E. Simpson