Assignment: Paris

1952

1h 25m

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

Directors

Robert Parrish

Writers

William Bowers(screenplay by)

Walter Goetz(adaptation by)

Jack Palmer White(adaptation by)

Stars

Dana Andrews

George Sanders

Audrey Totter

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Jimmy Race

Nicholas Strang

Sandy Tate

Jeanne Moray

Gabor Czeki, alias Grisha

Donald Randolph

Anton Borvitch

Herbert Berghof

Prime Minister Andreas Ordy

Ben Astar

Minister of Justice Vajos

Biddle, an Editor

Dad Pelham

Henry (uncredited)

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)

Directors

Robert Parrish

Writers

William Bowers(screenplay by)

Walter Goetz(adaptation by)

Jack Palmer White(adaptation by)

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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.

Geronimo196703 Dec, 2023