by Mark Murton

Also Known As: Ring of Treason

Directed by: Robert Tronson

Synopsis: Fact-based spy thriller about a disgruntled Navy Clerk, Harry Houghton (Bernard Lee), who is transferred to a secret weapons research establishment. He is subsequently approached by Russian intelligence and agrees to to procure secrets for them for money.

Kitty Cameo: Go-between Gordon Lonsdale (William Sylvester) is seen taking a convoluted route to arrive at an unremarkable house in a suburban street in Ruislip. He knocks on the door and is greeted by a woman, Helen Kroger (Nancy Nevinson), who cradles a large longhair tabby cat in her arms. She invites him in and bolts the door.

She escorts him into the drawing room, chatting amiably as they go.

Here he finds her husband, Peter Kroger (David Kossoff), who greets him warmly.

As Lonsdale shows Kroger the documents he has received from Houghton, Helen goes around pulling the curtains, finally setting the cat down on the sofa to enable her to finish the job. The humans all move to another room and the cat isn’t seen again.

Final Mewsings: Cats may not turn spies in but that doesn’t mean they approve of the practice.

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