A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Mr. Luke - British consul
- (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
Jill Balcon
- Wardress
- (uncredited)
Hyma Beckley
- Cafe Mimosa Patron
- (uncredited)
John Boxer
- Police Sergeant at Customs Cafe
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- Eric Ambler(The Dark Frontier, 1936)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe large signet ring that Commandant Razinski wears on his right hand little finger was one of Marius Goring's own. He wears it again many times in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955) as Sir Percy Blakeney and in The Old Men at The Zoo (1983) as Emile Englander.
- GoofsAt about 1:16, as Clark/Lockwood are about to emerge from the woods, they have a short dialogue re the insects and why/how/etc. Immediately after Clark says,"They're just insects," he rises from a squatting position and what sounds like a mellifluous bit of flatulence can be noted.
- Quotes
Bill Casey: [referring to police Commandant Razinski] There's a rumor going around that he had a mother.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Player (1992)
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A Bug's Life
Nicole Kidman was following an honourable tradition when she played a gorgeous neuro-surgeon in Days of Thunder for Highly Dangerous casts beautiful Margaret Lockwood as an entomologist. On this evidence the main job qualification seems to be that you don't find insects repulsive. What next, JayLo as a nuclear physicist?
Despite being written by the estimable Eric Ambler, the screenplay for Highly Dangerous seems to me to be somewhat misjudged. The `humorous' elements, while never being remotely funny, serve to drain the excitement away from the dramatic sequences. I think the film would have worked much better as a straight thriller without all the nonsense of Margaret imagining she is a character in a radio serial after she's been given a `truth drug'
Highly Dangerous has many elements typical of a Cold War drama of its time, the implacable police chief (a typecast Marius Goring), the brutal armed forces, the dissident priest who shelters the fugitives etc. Interesting that the war in this case is biological.
Apart from the interest this film will have for the fans of Margaret Lockwood, a big British star of the years around World War II, Highly Dangerous is at best a fair time-passer.
Despite being written by the estimable Eric Ambler, the screenplay for Highly Dangerous seems to me to be somewhat misjudged. The `humorous' elements, while never being remotely funny, serve to drain the excitement away from the dramatic sequences. I think the film would have worked much better as a straight thriller without all the nonsense of Margaret imagining she is a character in a radio serial after she's been given a `truth drug'
Highly Dangerous has many elements typical of a Cold War drama of its time, the implacable police chief (a typecast Marius Goring), the brutal armed forces, the dissident priest who shelters the fugitives etc. Interesting that the war in this case is biological.
Apart from the interest this film will have for the fans of Margaret Lockwood, a big British star of the years around World War II, Highly Dangerous is at best a fair time-passer.
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- eddie-83
- Sep 4, 2001
Details
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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