A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Acting
Paul Massie's unraveling is devastatingly internal.
Direction
Asquith's Paris is all rainy streets and moral fog.
Writing
Paul Dehn's script — he was actual wartime intelligence.
Director
Anthony Asquith
Eddie Albert
Maj. MacMahon
Paul Massie
Gene Summers
Lillian Gish
Mrs. Summers
James Robertson Justice
Naval Commander
Leslie French
Lafitte
Irene Worth
Léonie
John Crawford
Kimball
Lionel Jeffries
Interrogator
Nicholas Phipps
Lecturer Lieutenant
Sandra Dorne
Blonde with German Officer
Jacques Brunius
Cmndt. Morand
Robert Henderson
Col. Snyder
Miki Iveria
Louise
Anne Blake
Mme. Lafitte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Screenwriter Paul Dehn was a real WWII intelligence officer who interrogated captured Nazis — this is personal.
Asquith shot on location in Paris using actual Resistance safe houses; the claustrophobic interiors were someone's real hiding place.
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