True, but then there are movies with Dana Andreus like The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) or Laura, that are so good, that screw my top 10 and top 50 favorite movies ever! (Especialy the first movie I mentioned!) Those who haven't watched it...I promise it's MASTERPIECE.
George Sanders is one of three actors who speak the English language as it should be spoken, The other two actors are Rex Harrison and James Mason. Dana Andrews assumed many personas in his career and did them justice. Audrey Totter, who was slated, by studio execs, to become that decade's fem noir villan , was excellent.
If she goes back to that Evil man I will not watch your show… I’m tired of his abuse his children fear him mother Bloom in a earlier show months ago that he had a fight with his older son, lost his temper and killed him…I saw his son bleeding from his head…before he threw her out he hit her on the head she was in alot of pain…..
How prophetic. No one will ever know how many people have been kept in prison or worse by countries like Russia. I pray for those who are suffering on this Sunday, 23Jun24.
Seeing General Burkhalter dressed civilian and at least a100lbs thinner made him a good Hungarian villain henchman. Dana Andrews reprises his sleuthing scheming role from Berlin Correspondent and for once George Sanders gets to play a good guy. Good Movie, first time viewing and well worth it. A good quality upload too.
Did you know that Gen Burkhalter, Sgt Shultz and LeBeau were all Jews? LeBeau was a Holocaust survivor. Schultz’s family owned one of Germany’s largest toy factories and it was all taken away from them.
@larrainemorris8752 That fashion reporter was the every lovely, frequently deadly in her deviousness, when portraying a femme fatale, in her numerous film noir appearances, Audrey Totter. Some, but not her best films are available here on You Tube, and also on Internet Archive. Check them out, you will not be dissapointed.
At the time of shooting this film the USA was busy plotting the infamous coup of 1953 to overthrow the democratically elected government of Dr Mussadaq in Iran.
Thank you for reminding that coup, although America did not acknowledge it for may years till on August 2013. And years before it , on February 1979, they put Khomeini in the airplane and send to Iran. مرسی آسمان آبی وطن
Very good Cold War story. Jimmy Race (Andrews) was a little too brash in a foreign consulate and the gorgeous Moray (Torén)❤ though beautiful enough didn't seem tough enough as a news correspondent. Sandy (Totter), on the other hand, who was, worked as a fashion editor. Go figure. Sadly, Torén died far too early at the age of but 30 years old. Great cast. Enjoyable. Thank you
I didn't have the highest hopes for this movie, and only watched it because I thought the movie I originally picked out would suck. I am glad I changed movies, because this movie was great: a taut thriller, without a break in the tension. One more thing: I've noticed that many movies don't use the title of the source material for the title of the movie. This was a mistake in this case, because Trial By Terror would have been a much better title than Assignment: Paris.
I appreciate Dana Andrews. His first wife died from pneumonia along with an unnamed child. He remained married to his second wife till his death. I find that admirable. I enjoy his work.
Comic-book level spy treatment made watchable only by the interplay between Dana Andrews and Marta Toren, which disappeared in the second half of the movie.
When do Americans get to act with some small sample of intelligence and forethought, correct anticipation and a clever Divine Inspiration and intervention. Sooner than our mortal enemies will suppose.
@@LM-fn6qb And by the time he was a young Kremlin stooge that system of evil was fully developed. The former KGB officer stationed in East Berlin can't conceive of "power to the people." For him to take mass under Krill is the absolute height of hypocrisy. Hell is not hot enough for either of those rats and the voices of the Soviet Union who are playing the same game of imperialism as the Czars for centuries.
les prisons hongroises m'ont fait penser à Guantanamo en moins pire. Loin d'être un chef-d'oeuvre (je n'aime pas Parrish), mais Les 3 acteurs sont fabuleux, Sanders en tête !
A spy thriller, yes -- but a film noir, no. It's photographed in B & W, and it dates from the post-WW II era, true, but these elements do not make a film noir. Just for your information. Anyway, TFP. It's an absorbing film, even if Andrews hams up the American hero cliche.
@@gerryhouska2859 I believe it. It has taken me such a long time to realize how subtle the Western propaganda is, to this day. All Hollywood is just subliminal messaging.
Why would the American government coward towards the Hungarian government? In the 1950s they could level the entire hungry if they wanted. I’m mean it’s hungry for goodness sake. 😂
