Suave veteran private eye Duke Martin is on the trail of a secret formula and a kidnapped girl.Suave veteran private eye Duke Martin is on the trail of a secret formula and a kidnapped girl.Suave veteran private eye Duke Martin is on the trail of a secret formula and a kidnapped girl.
Roy Everson
- Man at Airport
- (uncredited)
Alex Graham
- Crystal Joy Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Aileen Lewis
- Lady at Airport
- (uncredited)
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- GoofsWhen Johnny is photographing the papers that Professor Dohlmann has given him, he takes the normal bulb out of his Anglepoise desk lamp and puts in a brighter bulb. When he turns on the light, the new pattern of light does not match that from the lamp; instead it appears that a light in the ceiling, with a broader beam, has been turned on. When Johnny then moves the Anglepoise closer to the papers, the light does not change as it should do if the light were coming from that lamp.
- ConnectionsFollows Murder on Approval (1955)
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Tom Conway as Duke Martin Part 2
Former FALCON Tom Conway in the second Tom 'Duke' Martin private eye flicks made in Britain during the film noir 1950's, with the right balance of gunplay, mystery and polite traipsing from various locations... from mansions to airports... gathering clues wherein sidekick Michael Balfour's overweight, ex-crook Barney is the better fighter during the rare times where that kind of risky thing happens...
Yet the villain and his henchman (including a young John Colicos) still mean business, having kidnapped beautiful Honor Blackman's beautiful sister, who might be carrying a scientist's secret that everyone's after...
Nothing like the tough guy American Humphrey Bogart vehicles from the previous decade, BREAKAWAY is as lightweight British yet still desperately urgent, keeping both the dignified snoop and audience on edge... despite knowing almost exactly who the villains are.
Yet the villain and his henchman (including a young John Colicos) still mean business, having kidnapped beautiful Honor Blackman's beautiful sister, who might be carrying a scientist's secret that everyone's after...
Nothing like the tough guy American Humphrey Bogart vehicles from the previous decade, BREAKAWAY is as lightweight British yet still desperately urgent, keeping both the dignified snoop and audience on edge... despite knowing almost exactly who the villains are.
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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