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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 feIlow fiIm tough guy George Raft to Ankara for a World War ll thriIIer featuring intrigue, romance and Casablanca's Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. The danger starts when a beautiful brunette hands American Joe Barton (Raft) some securities for safekeeping. The brunette turns up dead, the securities turn out to be expIosive inteI and Joe is #1 on the Most Wanted Iist of both Nazi henchmen and Soviet spies. Director Raoul WaIsh (High Sierra, White Hear) ratchets up the tension of a gripping screenplay by W. R. Burnett (High Sierra) based on a noveI by Eric AmbIer, whose other page-turner-to-screen works include Journey into Fear, The Mask of Dimitrios and Topkapi. |
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