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Director:
Writers:
John C. Higgins (story)
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Release Date:
October 1943 (USA) more
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A beautiful girl! A dangerous mission!
Plot:
Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory... more | full synopsis
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Cast

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Robert Donat ... Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu
Valerie Hobson ... Maruschuka Lanova
Walter Rilla ... Inspector Otto Vogel
Glynis Johns ... Paula Palacek
Phyllis Morris ... Anna Palacek
Martin Miller ... Doctor Novotny
Anthony Eustrel ... German MP Officar (as Anthony Eustral)
Percy Walsh ... Dr. Willendorf
David Ward ... Bronte, the Underground Pilot
Friedrich Richter ... General Weymouth (as Frederic Richter)
John Penrose ... Lieutenant Krantz at the Skoda Factory
Hubert Leslie ... Peter Valek, Shoemaker Contact
Mabel Terry-Lewis ... Mrs. Stevenson (as Mabel Terry Lewis)
Miki Iveria ... Female Worker Shot at the Skoda Factory
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Tartu (USA) (reissue title)
The Adventures of Tartu (USA)
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Runtime:
UK:111 min | USA:103 min
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Black and White | Color (colorized)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

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The poem that Donat and the others quote is from English poet William Wordsworth: "I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils" more
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Referenced in Star Wars (1977) more

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A Bouquet for Bucquet, 21 March 2009
Author: ilprofessore-1 from United States

This extremely well-paced 1943 spy film shot in England during the Second World was directed for MGM by British-born Harold S. Bucquet, remembered today only for a series of Dr. Kildaire films he made in the States for the MGM Culver City "B" film unit. Perhaps Bucquet's return to his homeland during the war inspired him here as he rarely ever again displayed such high-style. Robert Donat as the faux Rumanian Dandy steals the show; he is perfectly charming and romantic as a modern-day Scarlet Pimpernal. There is a particularly good supporting cast of German heavies and Brits playing Czechs. Walter Rilla and Freidrich Richter in particular are excellent as the sort of movie Nazis who showed up the year before at Rick's café in Casablanca. The Gainsborough Studios sets by John Bryan ("Pygmalion" and "Major Barbara") are exceptionally atmospheric and realistic. If the film has a weakness it is the performance of that wooden English rose, the beautiful Valerie Hobson,(Mrs.Profumo in life) whose not quite up to Donat's delightful mix of romance and melodramatics.

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