Hong Kong Confidential | |
Director: | Edward L. Cahn |
Producer: | Robert E. Kent |
Screenplay: | Orville H. Hampton |
Starring: | Gene Barry Beverly Tyler Allison Hayes |
Music: | Emil Newman |
Cinematography: | Kenneth Peach |
Editing: | Edward Mann |
Studio: | Vogue Pictures |
Distributor: | United Artists |
Runtime: | 67 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Hong Kong Confidential is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn starring Gene Barry, Beverly Tyler and Allison Hayes.[1]
Agent Casey Reed is tasked to find a missing prince (played by an un-credited Michael Barry) of the small Arab nation Thamen who was kidnapped by Communists who want to prevent him from signing an agreement that would allow the United States build a missile base there. Reed masquerades as a singer in a nightclub, but he is captured by the Communists, who plan to kill the two of them in order to blame the kidnapping on the Americans.
Leonard Maltin described it as a "Harmless B film about Anglo-American agents rescuing a kidnapped Arabian prince.", while giving it 2.5 out of 4 stars.