Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

JohnHowardReid It's very difficult to make a movie that is both amusing and exciting, let alone one that spoofs its own pedigree. But thanks to Roy Baker's excellent direction and the efforts of a stellar cast, this effort succeeds admirably on all counts. True, it does take at least ten minutes to warm up, but we need that time to get used to Margaret Lockwood's new, shorter hair style. I actually prefer women with long hair. Short hair seems so boyish to me, but it is certainly appropriate in this instance. Anyway, Margaret Lockwood and Dane Clark easily walk away with the acting honors, if only for the fact that all the other roles are either small or very small. Marius Goring is obviously operating at a slow speed in order to stretch out his screen time – a ploy which is not successful because it helps us to lose interest in the character. He's there, mooning about and looking ominous, but so tongue-tied, he doesn't really seem to pose a threat to our heroine at all. True, he may be cunning, but on the other hand, he may be just a slow-witted dope. As I say, no threat to our heroine at all! Margaret is also supported by a whole mob of really vigorous farceurs (no doubts about them, they're obviously all on our side) led by Naunton Wayne and Marius Goring (of all people). It's also good to record that the music score is particularly adept. And last but not least, I'd agree with other reviewers that director Roy Ward Baker manages to give this comedy/thriller a bit of style – which must have been hard to do, given the way the script jumps around from comic capers to suspenseful episodes, especially those involving Margaret and Marius! I tend to feel that other reviewers missed the point or got lost, Admittedly, I watched the itv DVD twice!

MartinHafer Margaret Lockwood plays an expert entomologist who is approached by her government and asked to do a bit of spying. Apparently, an unfriendly nation (you assume it's in the Communist Bloc) might be working on some horrible biological warfare delivery system and they need an expert to check it out first hand. Now here is the first part that doesn't make much sense--they give this ordinary woman no training and just toss her into the country! How anyone expected her to succeed is beyond me. Not surprisingly, she's eventually caught and interrogated. They even use some sort of truth serum on her. Now here is where the odd twist occurs--the interrogation actually HELPS her, as she begins to believe she is a character from a radio spy program. Once she's released (because she gave them no information), she's told she has 24 hours to leave the nation--and she springs into action like a super-spy. Along for the ride is a confused American correspondent (Dane Clark). How it all comes out is something you'll just need to see for yourself.While I have noticed that many didn't care for the film, it isn't because the idea couldn't be worked out well. No, the problem is the pacing--which is dreadfully slow. Additionally, the film could have used an injection of humor and energy. Now this DID occur decades later, when the story idea was reworked into the delightful comedy "American Dreamer" (with JoBeth Williams)...now THAT'S a film worth seeing. Otherwise, "Highly Dangerous" is a slow time-passer that should have been so much better. After all, it IS an espionage film and that should be very interesting.

Spikeopath Well the plot entails that an Iron Curtain country is developing insects to use as weapons should the need arise. The British Intelligence Division enlists sweet entomologist Frances Gray to meet up with an agent over the boarder and thus bring back some samples. However things don't go according to plan, and she's forced to rely on the help of newspaper writer Bill Casey to not only get the samples, but to escape the country alive!.The premise, tho oddly appealing, isn't executed with any great conviction. Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark and Marius Goring are not bad exactly, in fact Clark steals the picture, they just work in motion with the staid nature of the script, and sadly it's one of those films that one cheers when the ending comes, but not as a high point in the picture, more out of relief that it's over. In the films favour is that it is at least offering something different in the British spy caper genre, and the last quarter does contain enough drama to have made it worth your while, but only just mind. 4/10

edward wilgar Nicole Kidman was following an honourable tradition when she played a gorgeous neuro-surgeon in Days of Thunder for Highly Dangerous casts beautiful Margaret Lockwood as an entomologist. On this evidence the main job qualification seems to be that you don't find insects repulsive. What next, JayLo as a nuclear physicist?Despite being written by the estimable Eric Ambler, the screenplay for Highly Dangerous seems to me to be somewhat misjudged. The `humorous' elements, while never being remotely funny, serve to drain the excitement away from the dramatic sequences. I think the film would have worked much better as a straight thriller without all the nonsense of Margaret imagining she is a character in a radio serial after she's been given a `truth drug'Highly Dangerous has many elements typical of a Cold War drama of its time, the implacable police chief (a typecast Marius Goring), the brutal armed forces, the dissident priest who shelters the fugitives etc. Interesting that the war in this case is biological.Apart from the interest this film will have for the fans of Margaret Lockwood, a big British star of the years around World War II, Highly Dangerous is at best a fair time-passer.