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Release year: 1959

Storyline

In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.

Top credits

Directors

Robert Aldrich

Writers

Cast

Robert Mitchum — Mike Morrison
Stanley Baker — Conrad Heisler
Elisabeth Müller — Lisa Kyriakides
Gia Scala — Eleftheria

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Did you know

• Robert Aldrich said in later years that he found Robert Mitchum a very good actor and that he liked him; but that feeling, it seems, was not shared. Mitchum did not appreciate Aldrich. He did not like the kind of film he was playing in, and he did not think Aldrich was a good director. Some 15 years after this film, Mitchum would only agree to act in The Yakuza (1974) if Aldrich was replaced as director - and he was.

• Stanley Baker challenged Robert Mitchum to a drinking contest. Mitchum won, allegedly after the two men had drunk non-stop for 74 hours.

• Director Robert Aldrich was very dismissive of his own film in later years, once referring to it as "a terrible film, a joke"; he said there had not been enough time to develop the screenplay properly, although he also pointed out that, at least, his screenwriter, A.I. Bezzerides, was a man of Greek ancestry who knew the country and its history and traditions, whereas Leon Uris, the author of the original novel, had never even been there.