American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France.
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| Jeffrey Hunter | ... | Captain Bill Ranson | |
| Annemarie Düringer | ... | Rolande Hertog | |
| Nigel Patrick | ... | Major Julien Howard | |
| David Kossoff | ... | Dr. Mulder | |
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Rolf Lefebvre | ... | Hans Faber, chief spy |
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Larry Burns | ... | Martins, building porter-spy |
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Anthony Ostrer | ||
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Claude Kingston | ... | Willem Mulder |
| Philip Ray | |||
| Robert Raglan | ... | Lt. Miller | |
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Peter Prouse | ... | Sgt. Bill Parrish |
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Philip Bond | ... | Piet van Wijt |
| Otto Diamant | ... | Mr. Hendrijk | |
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Marianne Walla | ... | Mrs. Hendrijk |
| Beth Rogan | ... | Mary Ann Lennig | |
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American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France.
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netherlands | british noir | suicide | cyanide pill | allied invasion |Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
March 1958 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Casuslara Ölüm See more »Filming Locations:
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4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Although the Allies landed in Normandy instead of the Netherlands in June 1944, they did eventually mount the largest airborne operation of the war in the Netherlands: Operation Market Garden in September 1944. See more »Goofs
When Captain Ranson collected the newly arrived female agent Rolande from his flat, they leave the courtyard outside in a car which passes a 1950's Vauxhall Wyvern with a tarpaulin draped over the back to camouflage it. See more »Crazy Credits
A true story from the annals of the Office of Strategic Services of the United States. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I rated this movie with 6/10 which agreed with the communal IMDb.com rating when I checked.The title refers to how long it takes to die for a person who is caught spying after they have taken a cyanide suicide capsule.So we are in the realm of WW11 in 1944 when the allies had to trick the Germans into thinking the invasion would occur in Holland so that they kept important divisions tied up there.Nigel Patrick plays the British major and Jeffrey Hunter plays the American captain whose task is to sell this fiction to the Germans.In the mix comes AnneMarie Duringer, who being Swiss born had a believable accent and who plays a Dutch agent transported to London.Is she what she seems?
I must say that spy movies set in war time in this country (e.g."Night Train to Munich 1940) , seem to show that our country was over populated by Nazi agents.In fact very few German agents could survive for long in the paranoid state we lived under when any one that appeared different would attract suspicion from the public.I found the love scene between Jeffrey Hunter and Annemarie Duringer very contrived and unconvincing.Nigel Patrick was adequate.The reality of deceiving the Germans about when and where the invasion would happen was almost an industry with many more participants from the allies than this film suggested.