“Tense, exciting, unusual !”
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.
Ralph Thomas
Betty E. Box
Janet Green
Geoffrey Unsworth
Benjamin Frankel
Jean Simmons
Sophie Malraux
Trevor Howard
Maj. David Somers
Sonia Dresdel
Jess Fenton
Barry Jones
Nicholas Fenton
Kenneth More
Willy Shepley
Geoffrey Keen
Police Inspector
André Morell
Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell)
Michael Brennan
Police Superintendent
Gerard Heinz
Dr. Karl Cesare
Lily Kann
Minna Cesare
Eric Pohlmann
Taxidermist
Richard Wattis
Employment Agent
... and 4 more
John Chard
Love is like a butterfly, as soft and gentle as a sigh. The Clouded Yellow is directed by Ralph Thomas and written by Eric Ambler and Janet Green. It stars Trevor Howard, Jean Simmons, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More and Geoffrey Keen. Taut British spy thriller with Hitchcockian flavo...
CinemaSerf
Ralph Thomas has assembled a superior cast for this intriguing thriller. MI6 agent Trevor Howard ("Somers") returns from a mission to find he has outlived his usefulness and is to be put out to grass, He finds work at a remote country house were he is to help the ostensibly eccentric owner "Fenton" ...
The Clouded Yellow (1950)
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