State Secret
ADVENTURE SWEEPING ACROSS A CONTINENT!
1950 · 1h 44m · PASSED
Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Sydney Gillat
Overview
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Director and cast
- Sydney Gillat Director
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Dr. John Marlowe
- Glynis Johns as Lisa Robinson
- Jack Hawkins as Colonel Galcon
- Herbert Lom as Karl Theodor
- Walter Rilla as General Niva
- Karl Stepanek as Dr. Revo
- Hans Olaf Moser as Sigrist
- Guido Lorraine as Lieutenant Prachi
- Robert Ayres as Arthur J. Buckman
- Howard Douglas as Clubman
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