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Count Five and Die
Count Five and Die is a 1957 British war thriller film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick and Annemarie Düringer. It was made by Zonic Productions and released in Britain and the US by Twentieth Century Fox. It was produced by Ernest Gartside with the screenplay by Jack Seddon and David Pursall, based on the non-fiction book of the same title by Barry Wynne.
Plot
In 1944 London, Major Julien Howard (Nigel Patrick), a British MI6 intelligence agent, meets Captain Bill Ranson (Jeffrey Hunter), his new American security officer. As Howard was previously picked up by German Abwehr counter-intelligence, Ranson soon realizes that their assignment is to feed misinformation to the Germans about the location of the D-Day landings; they are to make it look like it will be in the occupied Netherlands. Howard tells him the rest of the unit must not know the truth.
More details
author | David Pursall Jack Seddon |
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contentLocation | London Netherlands |
director | Victor Vicas |
editor | Russell Lloyd |
events | World War II |
genre | drama thriller |
keywords | abwehr behind enemy lines bomb capture claim d-day epilogue force german agent intelligence agent kidnap land mi5 mi6 misinformation netherlands in world war ii plan psychological warfare radio operator wait want |
musicBy | John Wooldridge |
producer | Ernest Gartside |
productionCompany | Zonic Productions |
publisher | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
theme | spy |