Delayed Action (1954)

Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.

Delayed Action is a 1954 movie. Genres: Crime. Directed by John Harlow. Main cast: Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley, Bruce Seton, Michael Balfour. Runtime: 58 minutes. Its average rating is 5.8 out of 10, from 6 votes.