The Devil's Agent

The Devil's Agent
Belgian poster
Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by	Emmet Dalton
Screenplay by	Robert Westerby
Based on	the novel Im Namen des Teufels by Hans Habe
Starring	Macdonald Carey Peter van Eyck Marianne Koch Christopher Lee
Music by	Philip Green (composed and conducted by)
Cinematography	Gerald Gibbs
Edited by	Tom Simpson
Production company	Emmet Dalton Productions CCC Filmkunst (Berlin)
Distributed by	British Lion Film Corporation (U.K.)
Release date	September, 1961 (U.K.)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	West Germany/U.K./Ireland
Language	English

The Devil's Agent (German: Im Namen des Teufels) is a 1962 drama film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Christopher Lee and Macdonald Carey. It was a co-production between Britain, West Germany and the Republic of Ireland. It was based on a novel by Hans Habe. It is set in East Germany during the Cold War.

Mild-mannered Viennese wine merchant George Droste (Peter van Eyck), an intelligence expert during the second world war, unexpectedly encounters old friend Baron Von Staub (Christopher Lee), and spends a weekend with him on his estate in the Soviet zone. The two revive a friendship interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub's sister asks Droste to transport a small package to a friend in West Germany, the bewildered Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games, at first becoming an unwilling dupe for the Russians, and then retaliating by offering his services to a US intelligence agency.

TV Guide gave it two out of four stars, noting an "Occasionally gripping spy drama with a very good cast." while Allmovie concluded, "Somewhat lost amidst the flashier James Bond clones of the late 1960s, The Devil's Agent holds up pretty well when seen today."