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State Secret (1950)
Directed by Sidney Gilliat
“ADVENTURE SWEEPING ACROSS A CONTINENT!”
Thriller, Drama, Romance, Mystery · 1h 44m
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Dr. John Marlowe
Glynis Johns
Lisa Robinson
Jack Hawkins
Colonel Galcon
Herbert Lom
Karl Theodor
Walter Rilla
General Niva
Karl Stepanek
Dr. Revo
H
Hans Olaf Moser
Sigrist
Guido Lorraine
Lieutenant Prachi
Robert Ayres
Arthur J. Buckman
Howard Douglas
Clubman
Martin Boddey
Clubman
Russell Waters
Clubman
Crew
- Director
- Sidney Gilliat
- Screenplay
- Sidney Gilliat
- Novel
- Roy Huggins
- Director of Photography
- Robert Krasker
- Original Music Composer
- William Alwyn
- Editor
- Thelma Myers
- Producer
- Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Details
- Release date
- 1950-09-11
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama, Romance, Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- London Films Productions, British Lion Films