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Overview
Writers (WGA):
J. Alvin Kugelmass (story)Michael Wilson (screenplay) (originally as James O'Donnell)
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Release Date:
16 February 1959 (Sweden) morePlot:
World War II spy thriller supposedly based on true story. British secret agent (Jack Hawkins) successfully infiltrates Nazi military... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Heroes in the shadow. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jack Hawkins | ... | Gen. Alex Schottland |
| Gia Scala | ... | Lili Geyr |
| Erik Schumann | ... | Lt. Reinisch |
| Alexander Knox | ... | Gestapo Leader Müller |
| Felix Aylmer | ... | Cornaz |
| Walter Hudd | ... | Adm. Canaris |
| Edward Underdown | ... | Kaltenbrunner |
| Laurence Naismith | ... | Gen. Hauser |
| Geoffrey Bayldon | ... | Dietz |
| Kenneth Griffith | ... | Adolf Hitler |
| Robert Crewdson | ... | 1st Gestapo Agent |
 | Michael Caine | ... | Gestapo Agent |
| Harriette Johns | ... | Karen Corscher |
| Martin Benson | ... | Gen. Wagner |
| Victor Woolf | ... | Pawnbroker |
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Gia Scala's apartment building's architecture with its open glass facade is obviously of a modern (1950s) design rather than the sort of design be found in 1940s Berlin. moreFAQ
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Andre De Toth,who 's famous for directing mainly westerns ,pays here a tribute to men and women who work in the shadow,at their own risk:Jack Hawkins portrays a German officer ,who secretly refuses the nazi ideology and who passes on military informations to the Allies.He is helped by a courageous singer,played by beautiful Gia Scala -who would be the traitor in "Guns of Navarone" (1960),and who died in the late sixties of overdose.
Andre De Toth wanted to show the facts and nothing but the facts.So,no psychology here.His choice leaves the spectator hungry for more:why
this officer who fought during WW1 and suffered supreme insult of defeat, why should he join the other side?
The movie is absorbing,with a very competent cast,some funny scenes (the aide-de-camp who believes he's found evidence against his chief,while listening to Hawkins/Scala 's conversation and is called peeping tom by a superior),some suspenseful ones influenced by Lang and Hitchcock(the car got bogged down).
Outside the westerns,do not miss De Toth's "house of wax".