Ring of Treason
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Tronson
Bernard Lee
William Sylvester
Margaret Tyzack
David Kossoff
Nancy Nevinson
Film Details
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Synopsis
Warrant officer Henry Houghton, discharged from the staff of the British Embassy in Warsaw because of his disgraceful drinking, returns to England and is assigned to the Navy's Underwater Weapons Establishment at Portland. Soon afterwards he is contacted by a friend of his former Polish girl friend and blackmailed into the Soviet spy ring led by Gordon Lonsdale. Houghton becomes friendly with spinster Elizabeth Gee, who has access to keys to the department's safe. He gains her assistance in stealing documents and convinces her to give them to Lonsdale, in spite of the fact that Elizabeth believes Lonsdale to be a NATO officer. Lonsdale photographs the documents and passes them on to London book dealer Peter Kroger and his wife, Helen, who then transmit them by radio to Moscow. Houghton's free spending of money from his illegal income soon arouses the suspicion of the British intelligence service, and it is not long before they track down and arrest the members of the spy ring.
Director
Robert Tronson
Cast
Bernard Lee
William Sylvester
Margaret Tyzack
David Kossoff
Nancy Nevinson
Thorley Walters
Gillian Lewis
Brian Nissen
Newton Blick
Philip Latham
Howard Pays
Cyril Chamberlain
Justine Lord
Richard Marner
Norma Foster
Anita West
Patrick Barr
Edwin Apps
Derek Francis
Garry Marsh
Basil Dignam
Hector Ross
Margaret Ward
George Pravda
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
Released in Great Britain in 1964 as Ring of Spies. The film is based on the Portland (England) Spy Case, 1961. A narrator introduces the film with documentary footage of the actual spies.
