Secret Mission Page #2

Synopsis: In this World War II suspense thriller, three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Director(s): Harold French
Production: Franco London Films
 
IMDB:
5.4
Year:
1942
94 min
65 Views


in the middle of a wood.

It's a very old, big tree.

We used to play there as

children. There are names

carved all over it.

And the code signal for

bringing the aircraft?

- Dawn, ack,

and a series of hours.

-(ALL REPEATING)

We better synchronize

our watches.

0206 hours coming up.

Ten...

Five...

Right.

Now all you've got to do is

applaud Captain Gowan,

Keep your eyes open,

stay in doors until you hear

from me.

Blimey, what a life.

That means I've got to be

closeted with my missus

for hours and hours.

- Let's go.

- What was that?

It's Tannhauser.

Pilgrim's Chorus.

Lovely, isn't it?

Get down, quick!

Have I been drinking

or something?

Looks like

a Polish armored car.

Model VX.

- The music's too loud.

- Just like Derby Day with all

the hurdy-gurdies.

- Lovely.

- I can't understand it all.

Come on.

Nobby, you and Captain Gowan

can turn off here.

Eight kilometers to the west,

you come into the back of

the village.

Right.

- I'll see you tomorrow morning

at Nobby's cafe, 12:00.

- Good luck.

Good luck.

- Look after him,

he owes me money.

- I will, sir. Like me own mum.

- And how far is it?

- About ten kilometers.

Too far for my liking.

(YELLING IN GERMAN)

Captain Mackenzie,

for the last five hours

I've been asking you

Three simple questions,

Only you are too stupid and

pigheaded to give me a reply!

You look worn out.

Why don't you give me

an answer?

Then you can rest.

If I gave you an answer,

I'd never rest.

You're a fool, Captain!

Maybe.

- (KNOCKING ON DOOR)

- (SPEAKING GERMAN)

Message just come through,

Herr Major.

Wires cut at point 5-1-8-4-2.

- Troops?

- No, believed to be

only three or four men.

- So more of your friends, eh?

- Maybe.

- Or perhaps you brought

them with you?

- Maybe.

We'll soon catch the swine.

Send out patrols immediately,

motorcycles as well as foot.

Very good, Herr Major.

Did you bring them with you

or did you not?

Now will you speak?

What do you know about it?

All I know is that your

personality is objectionable,

Your manners filthy,

And your end quite soon.

There's the house.

How long since you saw it?

Over two years.

Are they still...

When last you heard,

was the family still there?

When last I heard.

It should be too late

for anyone to be up,

it's after 3:
00.

We'll get in this way.

You wait here for a second,

I will just have

a look around.

Don't be long.

(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH)

Do you speak English?

Yes.

- May I turn around?

- No!

Stay where you are.

I can explain what I'm doing

here, you know.

- This is very uncomfortable.

- Don't move!

Or I will shoot.

What was that?

- I believe you're frightened.

- No, I'm not.

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Basil Bartlett

Sir Basil Hardington Bartlett, 2nd Baronet (15 September 1905 – 2 January 1985) was an actor, screenwriter and writer, and in the 1950s the head of the BBC's script department. In June 1921, at the age of 16, he became the second Baronet Bartlett of Hardington Mandeville, when he inherited the title after his grandfather, the building contractor Herbert Bartlett, as his father had died the year before. He was educated at Repton School in Repton, Derbyshire, before continuing to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts.Having started as a stage actor in the 1930s, he joined the British Army at the outbreak of World War II, and served as a captain during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940. He was mentioned in despatches and wounded during the retreat. He published My First War: An Army Officer's Journal for May 1940, Through Belgium to Dunkirk. During his convalescence he worked as screenwriter of the war films The Next of Kin (1942) (which he later also turned into a novel), Secret Mission (1942) and They Met in the Dark (1943) before joining the Intelligence Corps, where he gained the rank of lieutenant colonel in charge of the kinematographic group of 21st Army Group. After the war, he briefly tried to take up his career as actor again, appearing in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), before joining the BBC, where he became head of the script department, but also translated a couple of French screenplays. He also participated as model in three of the six 15-minute programmes in BBC's first ever series in colour, Men, Women and Clothes, a history of fashion which was broadcast between 21 April and 26 May 1957 (available in the BBC on line archive).He was married to Mary Malcolm, one of the first two regular female announcers on BBC Television after World War II, from 1937 to 1960, and they had three daughters. When he died in 1985, the baronet title went to his younger brother, the Olympic fencer David Bartlett. more…

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