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6.9/10   204 votes
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Release Date:
29 June 1953 (West Germany) more
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1 win more
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Hollywood Blackball Backlash Buries This Terrific Film more (14 total)

Cast

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Fredric March ... Karel Cernik
Terry Moore ... Tereza Cernik

Gloria Grahame ... Zama Cernik
Cameron Mitchell ... Joe Vosdek

Adolphe Menjou ... Fesker
Robert Beatty ... Barovic
Alexander D'Arcy ... Rudolph (as Alex D'Arcy)

Richard Boone ... Krofta
Pat Henning ... Konradin
Paul Hartman ... Jaremir
John Dehner ... The Chief
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105 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Marlene Dietrich turned down the role that eventually went to Gloria Grahame. more
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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Hollywood Blackball Backlash Buries This Terrific Film, 28 October 2007
9/10
Author: jim-862 from United States

A film about escape from the Stalinist tyranny of the East Bloc? In the 1950s? By the Director who brought you Splendor in the Grass, East of Eden, and On The Waterfront? Never heard of it, huh? Perhaps it is time to look a little more closely at Hollywood's Celluloid Curtain and see if indeed our entertainment industry thinks that exposing totalitarianism is somehow not "politically correct." One seriously has to wonder why this star-studded, exciting, and uplifting film has received so little airtime over the years.

Frederic March, Gloria Grahame, Adolphe Menjou, Richard Boone, screenplay by Robert Sherwood, of Lincoln in Illinois and The Best Years of Our Lives fame...

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