Count Five and Die (1957) 

Count Five and Die, released 23 December 1957 (London, UK), March 1958 (USA). Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Bill Ranson; Annemarie Düringer as Rolande Hertog; Nigel Patrick as Major Julien Howard; David Kossoff as Dr. Mulder; Rolf Lefebvre as Hans Faber, chief spy; Larry BurnsMartins, building porter-spy; Anthony Ostrer (undetermined role); Claude Kingston as Willem Mulder; Philip Ray (undetermined role); Robert Raglan as Lt. Miller; Peter Prouse as Sgt. Bill Parrish; Philip Bond as Piet van Wijt; Otto Diamant as Mr. Hendrijk; Marianne Walla as Mrs. Hendrijk; Beth Rogan as Mary Ann Lennig; Arthur Gross as Jan Guldt; Wolf Frees as Brauner, shot spy; John Tatham, Army Captain.

At around 11.15, I can't help comparing Nigel Patrick & Jeffery Hunter, looking out the window, to Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood in 'Where Eagles Dare'. Uncanny!

*FANTASTIC* movie! Taut, suspenseful, extremely well-acted. It's amazing how those cheap sets and other problems just recede into the background when the acting is so compelling and the story so well-told. I mean, Jeffrey Hunter's voice was genuinely shaky & his breathing ragged after that raid scene. The girl's hands in that final scene had such convincing tremors too. Just the opposite of today's films where the acting is so bad it must give way to the special effects.

It's a real shame that Jeffrey Hunter was so underrated as an actor, it's almost as though his looks held him back, he wasn't taken seriously enough. He was just starting to get grittier roles when he died suddenly.

Thank you, for the upload. This was a very enjoyable film and Jeffrey Hunter is always easy on the eyes.

Thank you for posting this film, I thoughly enjoyed it, I gave it a wide berth until I noticed Nigel Patrick was in it,

"You have an irritating American habit of prying into personal matters under the guise of being concerned with health." (@34.17) It's now Global.

A nice Treat of a film to discover and watch. Just the right place and didn't go overboard with intensity or up the music, in those scenes. The fine acting took care of everything. Great casting, first of all. Director moved his actors along just right. A good, Behind The Scenes, war movie. I will seek out all these fine actors in other films they made. Thanks for uploading.!!

all the ladies in the comments say how handsome Mr hunter was. No one even mentions Nigel Patrick. I don't know if his looks appeal to the ladies or not but no one played a lovable rogue better than him. The man had bags of charm. On top of that he did not know how to give a bad performance in any of the films he appeared in

This is great. Thank you for putting this movie up.

Very well done. Excellent acting and script.

Thanks for uploading, didn't know this one existed.

Very witty dialogue and yet believable. I notice the father of one of the 70's most sensitive guitar icons is in the cast.

Great film, thanks and please keep them coming

I like any film with Captain Pike in it.

Nice upload. Jeffrey Hunter was a fine actor. Had never seen this one. For those that haven't seen this - ↓ MAJOR spoiler alerts ↓

A very good film of the era.

Good flick. Thank you for sharing.

Ending makes sense. Based on true story (at least a movie script). Had to chance a bullet (possible death) so she would resend with the false message. By only taking her into custody, it would have put those Germans at Normandy, not Holland. Hunter appears to survive where Duringer surely does not.

A good clear print 🎥😉

The 1950's: America was booming but Britain was still struggling.

We shall never forget....

A damn good old spy movie. Jeffrey Hunter did a great job. Nigel Patrick was very good- he made me dislike him for being such a hard ass. Thanks for the good one!

Good movie. I was a little surprised when he mentioned the word "bathroom" inthis 1957 movie, it is a word that usually went unspoken for the sake of taste. A half foreign venture I suppose explains that little dose of reality. Good film and plot though the world in it was kept quite small. Good to see Jeffrey Hunter in this role he was the lead in quite a few movies taking the television role of Captain Pike was likely considered a low point by him and his agent. Television and movie roles were not considered equally good as they are today, with that in mind, and his past as a leading man in movies, it is understandable that he turned down the chance to continue on what was then "the little screen."

Top-notch (for the time) Spy Thriller with OSS Ops front and center. Really tight!

"Count to five and die" Um, no? Six!

i was 13 then hard life but better than people are now.

Make sure you close & lock the doors behind you, or you'll have five minutes!

A similar film is "The House on 92nd Street". Except it's in New York and the FBI is the hero snooper. It's a fun movie.

jeffrey hunter one of the most beautiful men i have ever seen

A really intriguing storyline, but, both the agent insertions into the Netherlands have been by aircraft, nothing unusual in that, but they would have surly used a Lysander, that was the usual if not only aircraft used by the RAF/oss/security services, that or parachute, I don’t recognise the aircraft they are using, I do know it’s not a Lysander, and as this was only just after the war I would have thought they would have got one easily enough. The other thing that got me was when the first aircraft returned the groundcrew marshalling him in indicated for him to turn to his right, but the pilot turned left and then straight on, now, that’s either a bad pilot or bad groundcrew, even in a film a pilot taxying in would obey the groundcrew, their licence could depend on it if there was an accident. Still an excellent film, even with the criticism I found it very good, a good old classic British made film with a great storyline, thanks for sharing. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Does this film continue on somewhere? It just was getting good and we ran out of time. Is there a Part 2?

I liked

Fabulous Film Noir. Perhaps not entirely based on fact, it suggests how traumatic WW2 was for Europeans. Saboteurs, a Japanese balloon and many brave American servicemen apart, the us people suffered little in comparison to Europeans, Russians, the Chinese, Malays, Indonesians, Burmese etc. around the globe. Excellent production, thanks for putting it on your channel.

Yes - but a tremendous Allied effort, especially British effort with whole false armies were made to convince the Nazis that the Pas de Calais - the shortest route - was the invasion route. Many of their best troops & panzers were stationed there...

If I had to go against a cutie like Rolande, I'd be a double agent for sure. Great post!

Nigel Patrick cannot weer a het without it looks crooked on every film

Ten divisions, that's over 100,000 soldiers not in France.

Tab Hunter gets it in the end...but he was never really into women anyway

Aspect ratio chewed up . . . .

That twist is Not 36 24 36

jesus they have to dial the shi out of those phones ha

Good Movie ! At 16:00 - nice car, suicide doors, anyone know what it is?

Great movie, it's a shame Jeffery Hunter had such a short life.

no one would have been surprised by a female SOE agent; Churchill sacrificed them like counters in a game. For instance, 4 female agents were sent into Europe with (unknowingly) false info re D-Day, then betrayed to the Nazis by....SOE. All were captured by the Gestapo, tortured, info extracted, then killed. Maybe they'll make a movie about that episode...but I doubt it.

This is my favorite kind of movies! Another hidden gem,that I watched for then1srlt time! Good movie!!

Any film with Nigel Patrick is worth watching and this is one of them

Surprisingly good movie! I, at least, have not heard of it before. Of course, I love everything with Nigel Patrick in the cast!

I am a born British citizen and proud. God bless all those that fought for our freedom. Nice film

Patrick and Hunter superb as always, fine supporting cast, just shows what you can do with a good plot taut script and a limited budget....

Excellent.!!! Excellent... Excellent !!! Spy movie... one of the best I have seen... Excellent !!! Excellent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love black and white movies. alot of suggestion while no show. you don't have people dropping the f-bomb all over the place. bring back the days of yea and nah!!! T THANK YOU FOR POSTING! THE MORE YOU POST THE LESS TV, NETFLIK, HULU,AMAZON PLUS, I EVER NEED TO WATCH.

One of the best WW2 espionage movies ever. You have to sift through a lot of youtube duds to find a gem like this. Thanks for posting.

This is the best film of its type that I have yet found on YT: strong plot, excellent acting. Thanks for posting.

Another excellent performance by Nigel Patrick.

Jeffrey Hunter was, besides being a 'pretty' actor, was a very good actor. He was offered the Lead Roll in the 1966 "Star Trek" series, but turned it down only to have a series of Strokes and dying in 1969 at only 42 years old following a serious fall and a botched operation. He could have gone on to Super Fame with the "Star Trek" series in hindsight. You can see how he isn't just another Pretty Face actor in this movie.

An excellent film -suspenseful and well acted. A film worth viewing.

Hammy acting. Absurdly overblown and inappropriate music. But good story. Bluff, double-bluff, double-double-bluff. Who can you believe?

As a USC film grad I can absolutely say that this is absolutely…..excellent

Thanks for posting, never saw it before and it was a very good thriller. Great characters and suspense. Also, I've always liked Jeffrey Hunter and I'm getting the feeling he's being rediscovered (or discovered for the first time) by many people thanks to things like RU-vid. Have you ever seen him in Brainstorm? That's a wild picture. He's got the same intensity as in this film, but it's a different type of character and a memorable one.

Quite good film, thanks for posting it. I adore Jeffrey Hunter, especially here, with that Kennedy look, and that smile, and those eyes (some eyes to swim in !) And such a good actor too. Nigel Patrick is perfect, and so perfectly british. A good moment, thanks again.

This is a really good and engaging movie. Smart script and good story line.

The most dangerous job in war. Get caught, get shot. No medals or open recognition. Only the best and brightest need apply. Yet, people are brave enough to do it. It takes a special kind. Unsung heros. Amazing people.

Excellent. Love any film with Nigel Patrick. Thanks for uploading.

What a dirty thing war is!!! But this is an excellent film with top-notch acting all round and the knowledge that it is based on a true story. Thank you for posting it.

Nigel Patrick & David Kossoff, two actors that I really like. Thank you.

A well made hard hitting (for the 1950s) WW2 film about D-Day. It was made on the cheap (and shows in the production values) but nevertheless is well scripted and well acted especially by the always under-rated Nigel Patrick.

good suspense . I like the fact it's more focused on thriller than a war itself. Yes definitely recommend it.

I'm MOST glad this film was made in England (London) rather than letting Hollywood ruin it. It is one of the best WWII films based on the secret services, espionage and counter espionage.

Neat espionage film. British intelligence used a lot of misinformation plans during the war so as to the truth of this one i don't really know. If anyone out there wants to watch something similar try The Man Who Never Was which is mostly true or Eye of the Needle which is not true but quite exciting. Thanks for posting.

Jeffery Hunter was in The Searchers with John Wayne ... great western directed by John Ford. Wayne and Hunter both did an outstanding job in that movie. One of the best westerns ever made.

It's a surprisingly "vintage" effort for 1957, and more resembles a work from at least 10 years earlier. Good performances all round, with some nice noirish bits, and seedy British ambience. The rather hyperbolic title is hardlty answered by the story. Well worth a watch despite its less-than-perfect shame. Thanks for sharing it.

If you like Jeffrey Hunter, see Single Handed- he has a big role. Amazing to think all this cloak & dagger stuff actually happened, with thousands of agents & underground types never knowing who to trust. Good work, you people with nerves of Steel!

Nigel Patrick is outstanding in his elder, experienced role outsmarting the American, who is easily deceived and totally controlling and headstrong, always getting himself in trouble with his playboy, lusting ways and foolishness.

Excellent story and good performances.

Smoking is compulsory in these old films noir

Nigel Patrick was in movies before Richard Burton . Both acted on the stage prior to acting on films . At times RB sounds exactly like NP . In rb's earliest films he has a rather high pitched voice . To sound more Manly rb--Richard Burton-- deliberately ruined his voice . He would go down to a beach and just scream and scream at the ocean . That's how he got his gravely , lower pitched voice and the rest is a successful history for Richard Burton in movies

I hate it when editors miss major errors like the nuclear towers in the back ground.that they built in1956 Not in the middle of WW2.A major cock up!....1:00:19

I did lookup Mr. Wynne's books and suggested them to my husband as well as this movie. I was curious about why his offspring wrote the author at age 86 was stuck in Cyprus. Mr. Wynne is a man of principle. I am not surprised his legal case is such as i is because I am Greek and my experience is in Greece at least there are no lines or there were no lines in the bank, utter chaos and corruption when my father was dealing with lawyers regarding property he had. There is no order and bureaucratic nonsense prevails. Maybe he would be a happier man to just let it go! be free of it. I can understand however, if he took a bite and held on like a pitbull he cannot let it go! It sounds exhausting.

Two bits of trivia that probably interests very few: The hideous looking car @15:41 is a 1937 Triumph Dolomite which came complete with twin trumpet horns, twin spot lamps and winding windows though a radio cost a further 18 guineas; also the actor, David Kossoff, was the father of Paul Kossoff, the soulful lead guitarist of the band Free.

"You can only avoid regret by switching off your imagination."

Back when you could make a good movie foe $35.47, and some gum wrappers.

Green Silver, PC nonsense even here? Can't you people watch great movies without ruining them with your BS PC comments and how today's silly, out of control world differs from 50 years ago? I wish we could bring back these much more simpler times, when men were men and women were women.

A pity Hunter turned down the second Star Trek pilot offer after the original pilot was rejected by NBC. He might have then avoided a pyrotechnics accident on a movie set in Spain that appears to have killed him through an undiagnosed brain injury afterward, dying at age 42. A fine actor whose later career is missed thereby.

this may be a stupid question but wasn't he in some movie with John Wayne?

Would hav bn mor convincing if ppl wore 40s clothing/hairstyles but gr8 story. Captivating. Very enjoyable.

Once again I'm afraid the aspect ratio is wrong. This movie should be in CinemaScope!

Very intriguing film. Unusually interesting. The very intelligent plot depends to an extent on the commission by the British (and specially by the TOO naive, almost dumb, American) of several amateurish mistakes -such as sending agents with anything resembling a cyanide pill, for everybody to notice. Yet the formula works and the minor film flaws are totally redeemed by a clever final turn of the screw. (Of course, the legend "based on a true story", in a feature film is a very relative concept. I'm sure the real plot wasn't as convoluted as this.)

Great film, the scene at 46:00 would be considered rape these days. Back then I guess it was romance, she definitely said no several times.

I remember when Data was pronounced Darta in the 50s. At work certain documents were sent in the Data Post bag, using compressed lead seals and wire Aged 84.

Superior Patrick and Duringer acting, credible spy yarn. Hunter interesting as a kind of un-quiet American

Good film. Thank you for posting it.

The English assignment was to feed misinformation to the Germans about the location of the D-Day landings; they are to make it look like the invasion will be in Holland. Ten German divisions were not in the line; they were north in Holland, waiting for an invasion that never came. The D-Day landings instead, took place June 6, 1944. Forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region, and not Holland. Re: the film: heavy background noises sometimes over ride the characters voices. It would be good if the film was restored. l found the clothing and hairstyles too modern, more like the early 60's in the era the film was was made. Plot is very good....especially the espionage tactics used. The pace of the film was upbeat...never a dull moment. Nigel Patrick is in charge of the whole English espionage unit, his acting and command role, he delivered with aplomb. Nigel Patrick a very good actor, and a very nice person. Jeffrey Hunter.....one of the nicest people in Hollywood.....died from a fall in his home, resulting in a skull fracture...hemorrhaged...died the next day after the operation. He was 42 y.o., left 4 children.

Sorry. Dutch women are the best. I sometimes wonder why I did not marry one. I am biased, obviously, but only where it matters most.

I have seen this movie 3 or 4 times.........have always enjoyed it.........am enjoying it again. THANK YOU for providing it. Please, many more or this type and era.........I like everything from the U.K. from about 1935 to about 1975 except monster or horror movies ( I can just not watch them) others may like them.

Gee, that was probably the best thing Jeffrey Hunter ever did. Most of his parts n movies were pretty poor.

A true suspense thriller! Thank you for posting!

This was a fine film. Everything was well done, especially the casting. However, the way it ended was unsatisfying - but that is usually the case with spy movies.

Back when people were proud to be American .... sigh 🤷‍♀️

I have always liked anything with Nigel Patrick in, thanks for this.