Spy in the Sky!
1958 film by W. Lee Wilder
- Steve Brodie
- Andrea Domburg
- George Coulouris
Loet Roozekrans
Production
company
company
W. Lee Wilder Productions
- Associated British-Pathé (UK)
- Allied Artists Pictures (US)
Release date
- 20 July 1958 (1958-07-20)
Running time
- United Kingdom
- United States
Spy in the Sky! is a 1958 American-British spy thriller film directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring Steve Brodie, Andrea Domburg and George Coulouris.[1][2]
The film is based on the 1954 novel Counterspy Express by Albert Sidney Fleischman.[3] It was shot at the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam and on location in Vienna.
Plot
A German scientist who knows the secrets of the Sputnik rocket programme goes on the run from the Soviets.
Cast
- Steve Brodie as Vic Cabot
- Sandra Francis as Eve Brandisi
- Andrea Domburg as Alexandrine Duvivier
- George Coulouris as Col. Benedict
- Bob De Lange as Sidney Jardine
- Hans Tiemeijer as Dr. Fritz Keller, alias Hans Krauss
- Herbert Curiel as Pepi Vidor
- Dity Oorthuis as Fritzi
- Albert E. Gollin as Martin, consul's representative
- Leon Dorian as Agent Max Maxwell
- Roland Wagter as soldier
- Monica Witkowna as gypsy singer
- Harold Horsten as pawnbroker
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This story is full of complications which scarcely compensate for the lengths to which the basically simple plot is stretched. A weak script gives the cast very little opportunity for performances, and in the circumstances they make their parts as credible as could be expected."[4]
References
- ^ "Spy in the Sky!". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations p.204
- ^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 160.
- ^ "Spy in the Sky!". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 25 (288): 158. 1 January 1958 – via ProQuest.
External links
- Spy in the Sky! at IMDb
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