Stars James Norton as Robert Hendy-Freegard and Gemma Arterton also stars as the person who brought him down and with fine additional cast members. The film is an extraordinary and chilling story based on Robert Hendy-Freegard, whose career masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the IRA. Conman Robert Freegard posing as an MI5 agent deceived innocent youngsters into hiding, and also the woman who fell for him, and then she brought him down. You can't outrun the truth!.
Even if it isn't as engaging as the real-life story that inspired it, Rogue Agent remains a well-acted and appealingly twisty suspense thriller. The picture is well starred by two stunning actors: James Norton who gives a good acting as the British convicted conman and impostor who masqueraded as an MI5 agent while working as a barman and car salesman and Gemma Atterton as the woman who unmasked him. And with additional cast members including Shazad Latif, Marisa Abela, Edwina Findley and Julian Barratt. The movie relies heavily in these two efficient players: James Norton, Gemma Atterton, while appearances of other secondaries are superfluous. This is one of three films produced between Great Point Media and The Development Partnership, with James Norton producing through his own production company Rabbit Track Pictures and Night Train Media would also finance the film. Rogue Agent is a 2022 film was well directed by Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn in their feature length debut, having generally favorable reviews and from a screenplay the pair co-wrote with Michael Bronner based on the unpublished article "Chasing Agent Freegard" by Michael Bronner. The film's budget was less than $10 million. Shooting commenced in London on 31 May 2021. Filming took place at Dover Castle and Dover Lighthouse. After six weeks, Lawn announced that principal photography had concluded on 12 July 2021. And there's a true crime docuseries on the crimes and survivors of Robert Freegard in 2022 called The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman.
Based on actual events about Robert Freegard, also known as David Clifton. Hendy-Freegard met his victims on social occasions or as customers in the pub or car dealership where he worked. Having met the victims, he claimed to be an undercover agent, working for MI5, the Special Branch or for Scotland Yard. He applied pressure and psychological stress to his victims, claiming they were threatened with assassination by the IRA, to coerce them into following his demands. Having won his victims over, he coerced money out of them and pressured them to do his bidding, including cutting off contact with their family and friends; performing "loyalty tests"; and living alone in poor conditions. He seduced five women, claiming that he wanted to marry them. Initially some of the victims refused to cooperate with the police because he had warned them that police would be double agents or MI5 agents performing another "loyalty test". In 1992, while working in The Swan, a pub in Newport, Shropshire, Freegard befriended two women, Sarah Smith and Maria Hendy, and a man, John Atkinson. All three were agriculture students at Harper Adams University in Edgmond. He told Atkinson that he was an MI5 undercover agent who was investigating an IRA cell in the college. He forced Atkinson to let himself be beaten up to prove his loyalty and to show that he was "hard enough". He also persuaded him to behave in a bizarre manner in college to prove his loyalty and to alienate him from friends. Hendy-Freegard then told Atkinson his cover was blown and both of them had to go undercover. He persuaded Atkinson to tell Smith, who at the time was Atkinson's girlfriend, and Hendy that he had liver cancer and persuaded them to accompany them in a "farewell tour" all over England. Next, in 1995, Hendy-Freegard had an affair with a recently-married personal assistant, Elizabeth Bartholomew. He told her to take up loans, supposedly to settle her debts following her divorce, and then made her sleep on park benches. In 1996, Hendy-Freegard told a woman in Newcastle, Lesley Gardner, that he needed money to buy off IRA killers, who had been released after the Good Friday agreement. She gave him £16,000 over six years. He also sold her car and again kept the money.
Even if it isn't as engaging as the real-life story that inspired it, Rogue Agent remains a well-acted and appealingly twisty suspense thriller. The picture is well starred by two stunning actors: James Norton who gives a good acting as the British convicted conman and impostor who masqueraded as an MI5 agent while working as a barman and car salesman and Gemma Atterton as the woman who unmasked him. And with additional cast members including Shazad Latif, Marisa Abela, Edwina Findley and Julian Barratt. The movie relies heavily in these two efficient players: James Norton, Gemma Atterton, while appearances of other secondaries are superfluous. This is one of three films produced between Great Point Media and The Development Partnership, with James Norton producing through his own production company Rabbit Track Pictures and Night Train Media would also finance the film. Rogue Agent is a 2022 film was well directed by Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn in their feature length debut, having generally favorable reviews and from a screenplay the pair co-wrote with Michael Bronner based on the unpublished article "Chasing Agent Freegard" by Michael Bronner. The film's budget was less than $10 million. Shooting commenced in London on 31 May 2021. Filming took place at Dover Castle and Dover Lighthouse. After six weeks, Lawn announced that principal photography had concluded on 12 July 2021. And there's a true crime docuseries on the crimes and survivors of Robert Freegard in 2022 called The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman.
Based on actual events about Robert Freegard, also known as David Clifton. Hendy-Freegard met his victims on social occasions or as customers in the pub or car dealership where he worked. Having met the victims, he claimed to be an undercover agent, working for MI5, the Special Branch or for Scotland Yard. He applied pressure and psychological stress to his victims, claiming they were threatened with assassination by the IRA, to coerce them into following his demands. Having won his victims over, he coerced money out of them and pressured them to do his bidding, including cutting off contact with their family and friends; performing "loyalty tests"; and living alone in poor conditions. He seduced five women, claiming that he wanted to marry them. Initially some of the victims refused to cooperate with the police because he had warned them that police would be double agents or MI5 agents performing another "loyalty test". In 1992, while working in The Swan, a pub in Newport, Shropshire, Freegard befriended two women, Sarah Smith and Maria Hendy, and a man, John Atkinson. All three were agriculture students at Harper Adams University in Edgmond. He told Atkinson that he was an MI5 undercover agent who was investigating an IRA cell in the college. He forced Atkinson to let himself be beaten up to prove his loyalty and to show that he was "hard enough". He also persuaded him to behave in a bizarre manner in college to prove his loyalty and to alienate him from friends. Hendy-Freegard then told Atkinson his cover was blown and both of them had to go undercover. He persuaded Atkinson to tell Smith, who at the time was Atkinson's girlfriend, and Hendy that he had liver cancer and persuaded them to accompany them in a "farewell tour" all over England. Next, in 1995, Hendy-Freegard had an affair with a recently-married personal assistant, Elizabeth Bartholomew. He told her to take up loans, supposedly to settle her debts following her divorce, and then made her sleep on park benches. In 1996, Hendy-Freegard told a woman in Newcastle, Lesley Gardner, that he needed money to buy off IRA killers, who had been released after the Good Friday agreement. She gave him £16,000 over six years. He also sold her car and again kept the money.