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Synopsis: Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that the Germans are researching nuclear energy to build atomic bombs. In Midwestern University, the scientist Alvah Jesper is called up by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to meet his former colleague Dr. Katerin Lodor in Switzerland and bring her to North America. However, his mission fails and Dr. Lodor is killed by the Nazis but first she informs that Alvah's acquaintance Dr. Giovanni Polda is working for the Nazis in Italy. Dr. Jesper travels to Italy and with the support of the Italian partisans leaded by Pinkie and Gina, he has a meeting with Dr. Polda that is under the surveillance of the Gestapo. The scientist tells him that his daughter Maria had been abducted by the Gestapo and Alvah makes a deal with Dr. Polda, promising to release Maria first and bringing them to North America. While Pinkie travels to rescue Maria, Alvah stays with Gina and they fall in love for each other
Director(s): Fritz Lang
Production: WARNER
 
IMDB:
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Year:
1946
106 min
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Oh, but that isn't why you crossed

the alps or got in touch with us.

No. But you see,

I thought I'd be safe here.

I'm not. The Germans

have found me here.

Yesterday I got a letter

postmarked Zurich

I'm to go to Italy to work.

I've been collaborating

there with Polda.

Giovanni Polda?

Yes.

If I don't return,

beginning Sunday,

ten anti-nazi Hungarians are to be

taken out of concentration camps...

and shot each day.

Each day, they promise me

a letter with names.

With photographs

of the dead people.

So the Germans

are working on atomic weapons?

Italians too.

They are coordinated.

Then what would happen if you went back

and your work helped them to succeed?

What happens if I stay here?

I can't live day by day knowing that

innocent people are being shot because of me.

I'll go back.

I'll take poison.

I can't decide any other way.

Suppose you went back

to work with Dr. Polda?

But you met difficulties

in your work? Obstacles.

Understand?

Yes.

That's possible.

That's possible.

And if you felt strong enough for it,

you could help us, too, with information.

There are ways of

communicating? I think so.

I'll have to discuss it. Arrangements

will have to be made, and-

believe me, I would be

strong enough for that.

But you have to hurry. They've

given me only until Sunday

Before I go back,

we have to talk.

I'll need every bit

of information you have.

If you only knew how

the British set them back...

when they bombed that

heavy water plant in Norway

It meant a delay

of months for them.

But what if you

can't arrange this?

Don't worry. It can

be arranged. I will-

oh, I forgot. They keep worrying

over my lungs. I'm due for an X-ray.

I'll be glad to wait. No.

Come back tomorrow morning.

I'll have more strength then.

We can talk all day.

Don't worry about anything.

Tonight I'll sleep.

Such good feeling

to know you can sleep.

Are there any calls for me?

No, sir.

I'm expecting a call. Will you

please have me paged at the bar?

Glad to, sir.

Oh, excuse me. Lassie,

what's the matter with you?

I'm terribly sorry. She's always

getting caught under people's feet.

That's a dog's privilege.

Martini.

Yes, sir.

Very dry, please.

Yah. This must be

an American

By your clothes, the drink you ordered

- surely an American

And by the fact that you

are new in this hotel.

Perhaps you are just over.

Huh?

Prosit!

Tell me-

oh, oh. Pardon me.

It's all right.

Tell me, friend.

Are we going to win?

Our cause, I mean.

Naturally, I'm anti-nazi.

The big question is

American industry.

If steel production,

for instance,

can go to 95 million tons,

then we will win.

So now tell me,

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Albert Maltz

Albert Maltz was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA. more…

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