Background to Danger (1943)
Country: US
Technical: bw 80m
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: George Raft, Brenda Narshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
Synopsis:
During WW2 Nazi spies want to induce Turkey to fight on their side by propagating the belief that the Russians are about to declare war on them. Foreign nationals in Ankara plot and counterplot on behalf of their respective sides.
Review:
Were it not for the speed and efficiency of execution, and an extremely well-photographed nocturnal car chase, the film's silly title and Casablanca/Hitchcock borrowings would remove all interest from this Warners potboiler.
Country: US
Technical: bw 80m
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: George Raft, Brenda Narshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
Synopsis:
During WW2 Nazi spies want to induce Turkey to fight on their side by propagating the belief that the Russians are about to declare war on them. Foreign nationals in Ankara plot and counterplot on behalf of their respective sides.
Review:
Were it not for the speed and efficiency of execution, and an extremely well-photographed nocturnal car chase, the film's silly title and Casablanca/Hitchcock borrowings would remove all interest from this Warners potboiler.
Country: US
Technical: bw 80m
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: George Raft, Brenda Narshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
Synopsis:
During WW2 Nazi spies want to induce Turkey to fight on their side by propagating the belief that the Russians are about to declare war on them. Foreign nationals in Ankara plot and counterplot on behalf of their respective sides.
Review:
Were it not for the speed and efficiency of execution, and an extremely well-photographed nocturnal car chase, the film's silly title and Casablanca/Hitchcock borrowings would remove all interest from this Warners potboiler.