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4 September 1952 (USA)
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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Cold War Noir
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(Complete credited cast) | Dana Andrews | ... | Jimmy Race |
 | Märta Torén | ... | Jeanne Moray |
| George Sanders | ... | Nicholas Strang |
| Audrey Totter | ... | Sandy Tate |
| Sandro Giglio | ... | Gabor Czeki, alias Grisha |
| Donald Randolph | ... | Anton Borvitch |
| Herbert Berghof | ... | Prime Minister Andreas Ordy |
| Ben Astar | ... | Minister of Justice Vajos |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | Biddle, an editor |
| Earl Lee | ... | Dad Pelham |
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| Mari Blanchard | ... | Wanda Marlowe (scenes deleted) |
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European Edition (USA) (alternative title)
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Leon Askin's first film.
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Assignment: Paris is another of those films with a faraway location that never got past the Columbia back lot. Still it's a decent enough Cold War noir thriller.
Dana Andrews is a hotshot reporter for the New York Herald Tribune assigned to its prestige international division in Paris which is headed by editor George Sanders. Andrews is covering the capture and trial of an American for espionage by the Hungarian hardline regime. Of course when he's sent to Budapest in pursuit of the story, Andrews becomes the story himself and Sanders works like a demon to get him free.
Sanders is aided and abetted by the lovely Marta Toren who gets in a bit of hot water herself in the effort. Audrey Totter, the fashion editor, provides moral support all around.
Hard to believe that in five years Toren would be gone, dying of leukemia at a young age. That was one extraordinarily beautiful woman, what a career she should have had.
Though Andrews is first billed, the film is really carried by Sanders in one of his few roles as a good guy. The man with the built in sneer carries the part off well.
The Cold War atmosphere was just right for these shadowy noir films of intrigue. Assignment: Paris is a good representation of the times.