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Plot

Counter-Espionage was the ninth film in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series, based on characters created by Louis Joseph Vance. Warren William stars as Michael Lanyard, the suave ex-criminal known as The Lone Wolf. This time around, Lanyard is in London during the Blitz, where he finds himself up to his neck in Nazi spies. Counter-Espionage was one of several mid-1940s Columbia "series" films which dropped the name of the series from the title in hopes of attracting new audiences. Other examples of this trend include the "Blondie" episode It's a Great Life (43) and the "Boston Blackie" opus The Chance of a Lifetime (43).
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Crime and Mystery,Drama,Thriller,War
Run Time:
71min.
Distributor(s):
Columbia Pictures
Director(s):
Edward Dmytryk
Starring:
Warren William , Eric Blore , Hillary Brooke , Thurston Hall , Fred Kelsey
Themes:
Double Life,Conspiracies,Lone Wolves
Tone:
Paranoid,Tense,Gritty,Rousing
Keywords:
Germany,Nazism,agent [representative],assignment,bad-guy,bomb,criminal,document,espionage,good-guy,plans,secret-plan,secrets,security-guard,servant,war