Foreign Intrigue (1956)

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even ... See full summary »

Director:

Sheldon Reynolds

Writers:

Sheldon Reynolds (story), Harold Jack Bloom (story),

Stars:

Robert Mitchum, Geneviève Page, Ingrid Thulin

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robert Mitchum	...	Dave Bishop
Geneviève Page	...	Dominique
Ingrid Thulin	...	Brita (as Ingrid Tulean)
Frédéric O'Brady	...	Spring
Eugene Deckers	...	Sandoz
Inga Tidblad	...	Mrs. Lindquist
Lauritz Falk	...	Jones
Frederick Schreicker	...	Mannheim
Georges Hubert	...	Dr. Thibault
Peter Copley	...	Brown
Lily Kann	...	Blind Housekeeper
Ralph Brown	...	Smith
Milo Sperber	...	Baum
Jim Gérald	...	Bistro Owner
Jean Galland	...	Danemore

Storyline

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was black-mailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during WW2.

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Plot Keywords:

nazi | employer | suicide | traveling | investigation | 

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Taglines:

The most startling spy-hunt ever filmed!

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Genres:

Thriller

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English German Swedish French

Release Date:

12 July 1956 (USA)

Also Known As:

Die fünfte Kolonne

Filming Locations:

Monte Carlo, Monaco

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sheldon Reynolds Productions, Mandeville Productions (I)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows Foreign Intrigue (1951)

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Soundtracks

"FOREIGN INTRIGUE CONCERTO"
Music by Charlie Norman

User Reviews

Not bad for its time...worth watching!

In order to review this movie, you need to put yourself back into the 50s when it was made. WW2 was just a decade before (closer than Desert Storm is to us), and the cold war was raging. Tales of spies, traitors, and exotic locations were just the ticket for mid-50s audiences. FOREIGN INTRIGUE has plenty of interesting turns and surprises, but it seems to be trying too hard to mix THIRD MAN with MR ARKADIN and perhaps a bit of WW2 Hitchcock (Sabotage, Foreign Correspondent?). I'm not a big Mitchum fan, but he gives his usual looming, low-key performance, and the supporting players do well. My real reason for watching this film (and I've been waiting over 30 years to catch it) is to see Frederick O'Brady, who plays the heavy (he was reviewed at the time as "out-Lorrying Peter Lorre."). He was my French teacher in 1973-74 at the Eastman School of Music and a great raconteur. He had enormous talent in music, languages, writing, and of course acting (having worked with Orson Welles in ARKADIN, plus Jean Renoir, Roger Vadim, and others). If you can find his autobiography ALL TOLD, you'll be fascinated. He told us that Mitchum tried to teach him to drive during the making of this movie, resulting in a wrecked car. Some thought this would be O'Brady's ticket to Hollywood, but instead French directors dropped him, assuming he would be asking too much money for "lowly" French pictures. He spent many years on stage and never had another juicy film part like "Spring" in this picture. If you enjoy the spy genre and aren't in a big hurry for lots of blazing action, find this movie!