After Midnight
(1950)
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After Midnight
(1950)
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| Alan Ladd | ... |
Captain Webster Carey
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Wanda Hendrix | ... |
Baronessa Giulia de Greffi
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| Francis Lederer | ... |
Baron Rocco de Greffi
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| Joseph Calleia | ... |
Dr. Lunati
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| Celia Lovsky | ... |
Countess Francesca de Cresci
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Richard Avonde | ... |
Count Carlo de Cresci
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Frank Puglia | ... |
Luigi
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Luis Alberni | ... |
Sandro
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Angela Clarke | ... |
Serafina
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Roland Winters | ... |
Manfredo Acuto
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Paul Lees | ... |
Frank
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Jane Nigh | ... |
Nancy
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| Russ Tamblyn | ... |
Pietro
(as Rusty Tamblyn)
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Virginia Farmer | ... |
Angelina
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David Leonard | ... |
Blind Musician
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Webb Carey returns to Orta, near Milan, to find out who betrayed his World War II O.S.S. team and caused the death of several villagers. His old love Julie, whom he thought dead at the hands of the Nazis, is alive and married to the Barone. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Captain Carey,US Army (check the title) comes back to Italy to unmask an informer who gave his group away to the Germans .He thought that the Italian girl who helped him then was dead but she reappears ,à la "Laura" and she might be the one who....unless it's his husband (which is really too bad for he was in love with her of course)or some vile wop.
Ther's a good depiction of the Italian village and their hostility to the Yankee whose activities were cause for reprisals among the population.A woman is waiting for her husband 's name to be cleared ,for his young son (played by Rusty (Russ) Tamblyn oddly cast as an Italian kid) can't accept the fact that his dad was a traitor anymore.
Mitchell Leisen was in healthier shape in the precedent decade ,and "Captain Carey,US " does not compare favorably with earlier works such as "Hold back the dawn" or "to each his own" .However ,it is not as bad as the precedent user wrote .Average.
Mitchell Leisen made a volte face after this ho hum effort and gave a very good thriller "No man of her own" the best version of the William Irish novel.