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19/10/1953 Thriller 1h 40m
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Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!

Overview

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

  1. Carol Reed

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Claire Bloom

    Suzanne Mallison

  2. James Mason

    Ivo Kern

  3. Hildegard Knef

    Bettina

  4. Geoffrey Toone

    Martin Mallison

  5. Hilde Sessak

    Lizzi

  6. Aribert Wäscher

    Halendar

  7. Ernst Schröder

    Olaf Kastner

  8. Dieter Krause

    Horst

  9. Karl John

    Inspector Kleiber

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-09-25
Very much in the vein of Carol Reed's similar cold war thriller "The Third Man" (1949), this is a gritty and characterful story set in Berlin just before the Soviet Union imposed travel restrictions. This time, the Communists kidnap "Susanne" (Claire Bloom) - she happens to be the sister of British officer "Martin" (Geoffrey Toone) and we are now presented with an intriguing and internecine series of spy and counter-spy scenarios that revolve around the dubious "Ivo" (James Mason) with whom the missing woman had been associating with - and has fallen for. It transpires that she is being held s...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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