State Secret

State Secret

1950 · 104 min · EN · NR · 6.9 (18 votes)
Dir. Sidney Gilliat · Starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Herbert Lom, Walter Rilla, Karl Stepanek · Music William Alwyn

“ADVENTURE SWEEPING ACROSS A CONTINENT!”

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While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.

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