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5.5

Assignment: Paris

NR·1952·85m

Thriller

Drama

Thriller

Drama

Summary

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Cast

Dana Andrews

Jimmy Race

George Sanders

Nicholas Strang

Audrey Totter

Sandy Tate

Märta Torén

Jeanne Moray

Sandro Giglio

Gabor Czeki, alias Grisha

Donald Randolph

Anton Borvitch

Herbert Berghof

Prime Minister Andreas Ordy

Ben Astar

Minister of Justice Vajos

Willis Bouchey

Biddle, an Editor

Earl Lee

Dad Pelham

Jay Adler

Henry (uncredited)

Frank Arnold

French Reporter (uncredited)

Leon Askin

Franz (uncredited)

Hanna Axmann-Rezzori

Miss Oster (uncredited)

Paul Birch

Colonel Mannix (uncredited)

Gail Bonney

Phone Operator (uncredited)

Monique Chantal

Phone Operator (uncredited)

Gino Corrado

Hungarian Embassy Reporter (uncredited)

Marcel De La Brosse

Maitre d' (uncredited)

Maurice Doner

Victor (uncredited)

Joseph Forte

Barker (uncredited)

Paul Frees

Radio Budapest Announcer (uncredited)

Gene Gary

Receptionist (uncredited)

Don Gibson

Phone Operator (uncredited)

Sam Harris

Customer at Bar (uncredited)

Paul Hoffman

Kedor (uncredited)

Pál Jávor

Laslo Boros (uncredited)

Werner Klingler

Interrogator (uncredited)

Don Kohler

Bert (uncredited)

Rolf Lindau

Doctor (uncredited)

Maurice Marsac

Gendarme (uncredited)

Michele Montau

Airport Receptionist (uncredited)

György Nagyajtay

Borvitch's Aide (uncredited)

Charles H. Radilak

Antique Dealer (uncredited)

Suzanne Ridgway

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Fay Roope

American Ambassador (uncredited)

Vito Scotti

Italian Reporter (uncredited)

André Siméon

Waiter (uncredited)

Robert Stevenson

Army Doctor (uncredited)

Victor Sutherland

Larry O'Connell (uncredited)

Albert Szabo

Recorder (uncredited)

Hal Taggart

Herald Tribune Staffer (uncredited)

Ken Terrell

Military Aide (uncredited)

Sigfrid Tor

Swedish Reporter (uncredited)

Peter J. Votrian

Jan Czeki (uncredited)

Murvyn Vye

Medical Officer at Prisoner Exchange (uncredited)

Georgiana Wulff

Gogo Czeki (uncredited)

Mari Blanchard

Wanda Marlowe (scenes deleted)

William Woodson

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Robert Parrish

Adaptation

Jack Palmer White

Adaptation

Walter Goetz

Screenplay

William Bowers

Story

Paul Gallico

Story

Pauline Gallico

Reviews

Geronimo1967

December 3, 2023

Dana Andrews is one-man newspaper "Race" who is transferred to the Paris office where he works for veteran "Nick" (George Sanders) whilst trying to prize his girlfriend "Jeanne" (Märta Torén) away from him. She resists but he persists and she is soon beginning to fall for his charms. Luckily for "Nick" though, a situation develops when an American citizen is sentenced to twenty years in an Hungarian prison for espionage. "Race" is sent to follow up the story and soon finds himself arrested and embroiled in a plot that involves the highest level of the Government and some secret meetings that might well annoy the Soviets. "Nick" and "Jeanne" now have to find a way of obtaining freedom for the writer and getting to the bottom of this conspiracy. This film moves along well with some engaging characterisations from Andrews, Sanders and Torén. It mixes romance and political intrigue with less emphasis on the first aspect and there's some torture and a bit of sarcasm before a denouement that smacked very much of a John Le Carré novel. I enjoyed this.