Durante la sublevación húngara de 1956, un mercenario americano es contratado para sacar a un líder de la resistencia húngara de Budapest, ocupada por la Unión Soviética.Durante la sublevación húngara de 1956, un mercenario americano es contratado para sacar a un líder de la resistencia húngara de Budapest, ocupada por la Unión Soviética.Durante la sublevación húngara de 1956, un mercenario americano es contratado para sacar a un líder de la resistencia húngara de Budapest, ocupada por la Unión Soviética.
- Language Professor
- (as Georg Köváry)
- Dirección
- Phil Karlson
- Richard Widmark(sin acreditar)
- Guión
- Todo el reparto y equipo
- Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesRichard Widmark's wife, Jean Hazlewood, wrote the screenplay. It was her only screenwriting credit.
- PifiasAlthough the film is set in 1956 Hungary. The opening title of the movie is The Austrian-Hungarian Border 1960.
- Citas
Jancsi: That would be convenient wouldn't it? You've made arrangements, certain plans to deliver me from my enemies into the hands of Herr Scheffler. You overlooked one thing only - I don't choose to leave my country.
Michael Reynolds: Sir, you don't have a choice, your time is up.
Jancsi: If that is so, Mr Reynolds, I'll die here.
Michael Reynolds: Why do you have to die? What for? I don't believe in it. Look, I came here to save your neck and I'm going to do it, even if you don't want it saved.
Jancsi: Whatever I do with my life is my own business. No one else's.
Michael Reynolds: Oh, you don't understand. In an few days you won't have a life.
The Count: We know our position better than you do.
Michael Reynolds: No, you don't! Scheffler is a pipeline. If he says I've got two days to get you out, you've got two days. Now, you can wait here like sitting ducks or you can do something. But there's a way out. If you're reasonable, you'll take it.
Jancsi: There's no profit for you, don't bother about that.
Michael Reynolds: Alright, I'm being paid. I know you'd like it better if I was some great humanitarian who believed in your cause. Well, I don't even know what your cause is.
The Count: That shouldn't surprise us.
Michael Reynolds: Well, who does outside this room? You could yell your heads off, nobody'd hear you. They aren't listening. They're all like me, I promise you; they couldn't care less. Causes are outmoded. Everybody's learned to live by compromise. Why can't you?
Jancsi: There isn't any compromise. To compromise is to doubt your own convictions. If they're worth having, they're unshakeable.
Michael Reynolds: Convictions are fine, if you live.
Jancsi: Mr. Reynolds, if I can live one day to save one person, that's enough.
Michael Reynolds: But you can do more than that on the outside. Unless you're determined to die a a martyr. And a crackpot!
The Characters All Have a Suspiciously Worried, Frowning Attitude with No-Non-Sense Brutality Against Any Who Dare Question Authorities.
When They Put On an "Act" of Welcome, it is More Like a Comedy Sketch than a Practiced Con. For that Matter, Widmark's "Acts" are just as Silly and Transparent.
Neither Does the Film Any Good at Maintaining Suspense or Intrigue.
John "Johnny" Williams First Full-Fledged Score is OK Full of Sudden Blaring and Bombastic "Stings".
The 3rd Act has Most of the Action and Sadism, both a Staple of the Bad Commies in these Cold-War Types.
Getting There may be a Slog for Some as the Film is Slightly Dated by its Verbosity Not Violence.
Film Debut, in a Small Role, is Santa Berger. Widmark's Wife at the Time, Writes Her One and Only Screenplay.
The Story is Somewhat of a Mess to Sort Through, as Things Go Undefined and Loose Ends are Fraying Everywhere.
Not Bad, but Doesn't Rise to the Best of Richard Widmark or Phil Carlson.
With Low Expectations...
Worth a Watch.
- LeonLouisRicci
- 1 sept 2022
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idiomas
- Títulos en diferentes países
- The Secret Ways
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Empresa productora
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- Duración1 hora 52 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1