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Background To Danger (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The studio that put Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca also sent fellow film tough guy George Raft to Ankara for a World War Il thriller featuring intrigue, romance and CasabIanca's Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. The danger starts when a beautifuI brunette hands American Joe Barton (Raft) some securities for safekeeping. The brunette turns up dead, the securities turn out to be expIosive intel and Joe is #1 on the Most Wanted list of both Nazi henchmen and Soviet spies. Director RaouI Walsh (High Sierra, White Hear) ratchets up the tension of a gripping screenpIay by W. R. Burnett (High Sierra) based on a novel by Eric Ambler, whose other page-turner-to-screen works incIude Journey into Fear, The Mask of Dimitrios and Topkapi. |
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