An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.
Acting
Mervyn Johns plays evil with unsettling restraint.
Direction
Stein's shadow-heavy post-war Britain feels genuinely suffocating.
Director
Paul L. Stein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mervyn Johns played multiple Nazi roles post-war; this was his most chilling. Real German scientists like von Braun were being quietly recruited by Allies during filming.
Released when Britain was hiding its own Operation Paperclip equivalents. The film's germ warfare plot accidentally mirrored actual Allied fears of Soviet biological weapons.
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