Genre: Film-Noir, War, Drama, Spy, World War II, Murder, Escape, Witches, Wizards & Magic, Suspense, Disturbing
Tagline: Welles and Del Rio together! as Terror Man vs. Leopard Woman--for possession of a mysterious stranger in the powder-keg Middle East...a man with a military secret worth more than his love and his life!...It's menace melodrama thrilled with mighty mystery
Plot: Joseph Cotten is an American naval engineer returning to the US from Istanbul during the second world war. After an attempt is made on his life, the Turkish secret police remove him from the train he had been traveling on, and put him on a ship--leaving his wife to travel on her own. But suddenly he finds himself surrounded by the Germans. Rather than be killed, he agrees to become their prisoner. Now he must plot his escape.
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| Directed by |
Norman Foster
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, Rachel and the Stranger, Davy Crockett and the River Pirates | |
| Written by |
Eric Ambler
A Night to Remember, Topkapi, The Cruel Sea | | |
| Music By |
Roy Webb
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Notorious, Out of the Past | |
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