The Two-Headed Spy (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

André De Toth

Escritores (WGA):

J. Alvin Kugelmass (story)
Michael Wilson (screenplay) (originally as James O'Donnell)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

16 febrero 1959 (Sweden)

Género:

Drama | Suspenso | Guerra

Plot:

World War II spy thriller supposedly based on true story. British secret agent successfully infiltrates Nazi military...

Plot Keywords:

Nazi | Spy | Hitler | Nightclub Singer | General

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Heroes in the shadow.

Reparto

Jack Hawkins	...	Gen. Alex Schottland
Gia Scala	...	Lili Geyr
Erik Schumann	...	Lt. Reinisch
Alexander Knox	...	Gestapo Leader Müller
Felix Aylmer	...	Cornaz
Walter Hudd	...	Adm. Canaris
Edward Underdown	...	Kaltenbrunner
Laurence Naismith	...	Gen. Hauser
Geoffrey Bayldon	...	Dietz
Kenneth Griffith	...	Adolf Hitler
Robert Crewdson	...	1st Gestapo Agent
Michael Caine	...	Gestapo Agent
Harriette Johns	...	Karen Corscher
Martin Benson	...	Gen. Wagner
Victor Woolf	...	Pawnbroker

También conocida como:

Clock with a Face (UK) (working title)
El doble espía (Spain) [es]

Duración:

93 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

UK:U | West Germany:18 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Compañía:

Sabre Film Production

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: Several transitional scenes (staff car traveling on the autobahn, refugees streaming through Berlin) are used more than once.

Heroes in the shadow.

Andre De Toth,who 's famous for directing mainly westerns ,pays here a tribute to men and women who work in the shadow,at their own risk:Jack Hawkins portrays a German officer ,who secretly refuses the nazi ideology and who passes on military informations to the Allies.He is helped by a courageous singer,played by beautiful Gia Scala -who would be the traitor in "Guns of Navarone" (1960),and who died in the late sixties of overdose.

Andre De Toth wanted to show the facts and nothing but the facts.So,no psychology here.His choice leaves the spectator hungry for more:why

this officer who fought during WW1 and suffered supreme insult of defeat, why should he join the other side?

The movie is absorbing,with a very competent cast,some funny scenes (the aide-de-camp who believes he's found evidence against his chief,while listening to Hawkins/Scala 's conversation and is called peeping tom by a superior),some suspenseful ones influenced by Lang and Hitchcock(the car got bogged down).

Outside the westerns,do not miss De Toth's "house of wax".