Secret Mission Page #3

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


Yes, you are.

Besides, you're much

too good-looking

to go around shooting people.

Especially with

this funny thing.

Michele!

- Raoul!

- Michele!

(BOTH SPEAKING FRENCH)

- Are the Germans stationed

in the house?

- No.

- Good.

- But they patrol

all around here.

You must be very careful.

- Oh, Raoul, why have you come?

- I'll tell you later.

Michele, this is

Peter Garnett,

a very good friend of mine.

- That means you don't have to

shoot me after all.

- It is all right.

- It was not loaded anyway.

- Huh?

- I am hungry. Is there

anything to eat in the house?

- Of course.

- French food at last!

- We eat in the kitchen,

though.

- Hardly use the rest of

the house.

- Oh...

We must be very quiet.

Violette must not be woken.

- Why not?

- It is late!

- Ah, she will be glad to

see me at any time.

- Just listen to him.

- (WHISPERING) How is it going?

- Fine.

- I have to look after him

myself now.

-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

Violette!

- Oh, Monsieur Raoul.

- (LAUGHING)

I'm glad to see

you have not changed.

Violette, when I was a boy,

was always hitting me

on the head.

(LAUGHING)

Here we are, sir.

(GERMAN SOLDIERS MARCHING)

NOBBY:
I've got the key to

the side door, sir.

RED:
Hope they haven't changed

the lock.

NOBBY:
She's going to

get a surprise, all right.

(SNIFFING)

The smell hasn't altered

since I was here.

- Seems rather a nice smell

to me.

-(LAUGHS)

I expect the place is

still running at a loss.

(BELL DINGS)

(CALLS OUT IN FRENCH)

I shan't be a minute, sir.

I hope.

Nobby!

- What are you doing here?

- Who, me?

Well, I popped over to

have a...

- I thought

you were quite dead!

- No, no, no.

- Why did you not write?

- Well, I cut my finger...

Am I not your loving wife?

- Well, yes...

- Am I not a sick woman?

- I feel sick.

- Are the Boche not here?

I don't know.

- Oh, why did you drop me?

Tell me, Nobby, tell me!

- I've got someone with me.

- Oh, you do not love me

anymore.

- Yes.

- You have forgotten

your little Lulu.

- No, I haven't. Now, shh!

Who is that?

This is Captain Gowan.

This is the missus

I was telling you of.

(GREETS IN FRENCH)

How do you do? Nobby never

stops talking about you.

So, you have come

to liberate France, huh?

It is time.

My house is at your disposal.

Only be quiet!

The Boche is everywhere.

Listening!

Come, Nobby. Glasses, huh?

- (SPEAKING FRENCH)

- Thank you.

Oh, he is so naughty,

that little one.

- But I'm a foolish woman.

I have given him my heart.

- Oh, bad luck.

(SIRENS BLARING)

- (SPEAKING FRENCH)

- (COMMANDING IN GERMAN)

(SHOUTING IN GERMAN)

(EXPLOSIONS IN THE DISTANCE)

Sounds like a big raid.

You know, we must be

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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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