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Peter Cushing and a host of other much-loved British talent star in this Cold War thriller from 1960, here playing researchers who unexpectedly find themselves ‘silenced’ by government officials who conclude that a newly discovered cure for both typhus and the bubonic plague could be used for biological warfare by enemy states.
At London’s Haughton Research Laboratory a hard working team of scientists, led by Professor Sewell (the always dependable Peter Cushing), come very close to developing a certain strain of ‘superbugs’ that could nip world plagues in the bud so to speak (perhaps, we could do with them now). Low and behold they come up trumps but when the good professor is anxious to publish the results he is called to the office of Minister of Defence Sir George Gatting (Raymond Huntley). This outwardly respectable but in truth far from lovable authority figure informs Sewell just how dangerous it would be to publish his scientific breakthrough discover