VHS : Background to Danger
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starring: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Osa Massendirected by: Raoul Walsh
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302717679
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302717671
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sales Rank: 12474
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: July 03, 1943
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Rating: - A sometimes overlooked film noire jewel
Sometimes on a dark and stormy night, the only film that will do is a 40's studio generated film noire.....for just those times, I reach for "Background to Danger." This spy thriller, set in an exotic location, has lots of action and plot twists to keep me entertained, but not overwhelmed.
It's the cast, courtesy of the 40's studio-system, that makes this film an often overlooked jewel in the film noire crown. George Raft, though slick-looking, gives a wooden portrayal of a businessman ... Read More
Rating: - "Background to Danger" (1943) ... George Raft ... Warner Bros."
Warner Bros. Pictures present "BACKGROUND TO DANGER" (1943) (80 mins/B&W) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Osa Massen & Kurt Katch ... Directed by Raoul Walsh, released in July 3, 1943, our story line takes place at Ankara in neutral Turkey : World War Two. A town of intrigue and of provocateurs. The Germans are planning to leak maps apparently proving that the Russians are about to invade the country. American Joe Barton is ... Read More
Rating: - Good espionage thriller
Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet appear in this espionage thriller, though in place of the might-be-expected Humphrey Bogart in the lead, it's George Raft. Raft plays an agent in Turkey who obtains secret papers from a Russian agent that reveal a German plot to incite Turkey against Russia and thus form an alliance with Germany. If it sounds confusing, it's only the beginning. Lorre is also a Russian spy who wants the papers, and although Raft tries to accommodate him, Lorre is shot by the Germans, though ... Read More
Rating:  - A B Movie Gets a C Grade
Another intrigue/noir from the Forties, but this one is a disappointment. George Raft is a businessman travelling from Lebanon to neutral Turkey during WWII. A mysterious woman on the train gives him some seemingly innocent papers to deliver to her in Ankara. At the same time, a Nazi spymaster (Sydney Greenstreet) in Berlin travels to Ankara determined to create a situation which will inflame Turkey against the Soviets. Two Soviet spies in Ankara, Peter Lorre and Brenda Marshall, however, are determined to stop ... Read More
Rating: - Who To Believe?
George Raft is a self described salesman travelling throughout Asia who gets tangled up in a Nazi plan to bring neutral Turkey into the war on their side. He encounters spy Osa Massen on a train. She's being followed, so she gives him an envelope containing forged plans to invade Turkey supposedly by the Russians so that Turkey will want to side with the Axis. When she turns up dead later in Ankara, he finds himself the centre of attention, with various spies and plotters like Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, ... Read More
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