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In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.
Elisabeth Müller
- Lisa Kyriakides
- (as Elisabeth Mueller)
Jocelyn Lane
- Maria Tassos
- (as Jackie Lane)
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- TriviaStanley Baker challenged Robert Mitchum to a drinking contest. Mitchum won, allegedly after the two men had drunk non-stop for 74 hours.
- GoofsThe secret list containing the names of Nazi collaborators that Mike Morrison was expected to pass in person to Lord Victor of British Intelligence in London could have instead been transmitted in code via clandestine radio operated either by an undercover Allied agent or Greek partisan so equipped. To place Morrison and those assisting him in such unnecessary jeopardy would have been considered amateurish or desperate at best.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Ken Adam: Designing Bond (2000)
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Still working variations on "Casablanca" 17 years later
Stephen Dade's noirish black-and-white cinematography is the best thing on view in Robert Aldrich's early (1955) and all-too standard-issue tale of an American (Robert Mitchum) involved against his well-developed instincts for survival in resisting the Nazis in a periphery (Athens and the title hills of Greece). There's a conventionally cold-blooded Nazi commander (Marius Goring), Theodore Bikel in the Peter Lorre role of the cowardly collaborator, a wooden Stanley Baker as a less-cowardly one, Elisabeth Müller and Gia Scala as brave love interests, and Robert Mitchum in what might be considered the Humphrey Bogart role if Mitchum had not essayed it a number of times himself. And in a variant on the Sidney Greenstreet role, every bit as rotund but more jovial is Sebastian Cabot. The set-up is handled well, but the middle of the movie drags through reprisals and miraculous escapes by the antihero. The low point is a discussion about values between Mitchum and Müller and the final scene is a bolt from the blue of redemption. The movie is watchable, not least for the Greek locations, but inferior to earlier Aldrich westerns and his superb WWII melodrama "Attack!"
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- Oct 24, 2004
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- $1,190,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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