| The Master Plan | |
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| Directed by | Cy Endfield |
| Screenplay by | Cy Endfield |
| Based on | Operation North Star by Harald Bratt |
| Produced by | Charles Leeds Steven Pallos |
| Starring | Norman Wooland Tilda Thamar Wayne Morris |
| Cinematography | Jonah Jones |
| Edited by | Jim Connock |
Production | Gibraltar Films |
| Distributed by | Grand National Pictures |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Master Plan is a 1954 British second feature[1] espionage thriller film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Norman Wooland, Tilda Thamar and Wayne Morris.[2] It was based on the teleplay Operation North Star by Harald Bratt.
Following the Second World War, an American army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, enemy agents know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor.
The filmwas made at Southall Studios with sets designed by the art director Scott MacGregor.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Unpretentious East-West espionage story in a continental setting. The locale and atmosphere are fairly convincing and the plot is adequately sustained, but credibility is ignored towards the end, when a prowler is loose in the well-guarded grounds and, although armed with a rifle with telescopic sights, fails to kill at twenty yards range."[3]
Kine Weekly wrote: "The picture, which, incidentally, far from flatters Military Intelligence, is little but talk for the first hour. Wayne Morris, sound as the roughly handled Tom, Norman Wooland, all agog as Cleaver, and Tilda Thamar, Mary Mackenzie and Marjorie Stewart, suitably contrasted as the women, try to keep the conversation clear and crisp, but it is only during the last 20 minutes that sparks fly. The denouement is, however, first rate theatre and gets the headline hokum over."[4]
TV Guide wrote, "the intriguing story suffers from inefficient production techniques."[5]
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