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Stolen Assignment is a 1955 British comedy 'B' film directed by Terence Fisher and starring John Bentley and Hy Hazell. It was produced by Francis Searle for Act Films Ltd and was a sequel to Fisher's Final Appointment (1954) , featuring sleuthing journalists Mike Billings and Jenny Drew.
Stolen Assignment: Directed by Terence Fisher. With John Bentley, Hy Hazell, Eddie Byrne, Patrick Holt. A young female reporter, tired of the lightweight women's stories her editor keeps assigning her, pesters him to give her an assignment with more substance.
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- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Terence Fisher
- 1955-08
Stolen Assignment. 1955 film; Comic thriller about an artist whose wife disappears, and a journalist and policeman investigating the case. Stars John Bentley, Hy Hazell, Patrick Holt, Eddie Byrne, Joyce Carey and more.
Feb 14, 2015 · published 14 February 2015. When Ida Garnett (Joyce Carey) reports the disappearance of her niece, Margaret Crossley, to the police they have an obvious suspect for murder – her artist husband, Henry (Patrick Holt). But the only person who stands to gain from the death is not Henry…
Stolen assignment is yet another light-hearted crime/ thriller in which a couple of newspaper reporters compete with each other to expose a murderer, and the police seem unable to do without their 'help'. A time honored theme that holds up extremely well in this ~hour long romp.
Directed by future Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher, this entertaining, light-hearted crime thriller centres around the adventures of sleuthing reporters Mike Billings (John Bentley) and Jenny Drew (Hy Hazell) as they try to unravel the alibi of a suspected murderer...
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Starring John Bentley, Hy Hazell and Eddie Byrne. When an artist's wife is found dead, a top journalist joins forces with a conversation writer to solve the case.
