Background to Danger
Background to Danger is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film starring George Raft and featuring Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre.
Plot
In 1942, Nazi Germany attempts to bring neutral Turkey into the war on its side by staging an assassination attempt on Franz von Papen, its ambassador to the country. Much to the annoyance of Colonel Robinson (Sydney Greenstreet), von Papen survives and the Russians that his agent provocateur was trying to frame have solid alibis, forcing him to turn to another scheme to inflame Turkey's traditional rivalry with Russia.
Cast
- Alfred Zeisler
- Brenda Marshall
- Charles Irwin
- Frank Puglia
- Frank Reicher
- George Raft
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
- Jack Chefe
- Jean Del Val
- John Bleifer
- Kurt Kreuger
- Leo White
- Michael Mark
- Nestor Paiva
- Nick Thompson
- Osa Massen
- Paul Porcasi
- Pedro de Cordoba
- Peter Lorre
- Steven Geray
- Sydney Greenstreet
- Tom Steele
- Turhan Bey
- Willard Robertson
- William Edmunds
- William von Brincken
More details
| author | W. R. Burnett William Faulkner |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Istanbul |
| director | Raoul Walsh |
| editor | Jack Killifer |
| events | World War II |
| genre | thriller |
| keywords | agent provocateur aleppo ankara assassination attempt capture claim customs agent dead woman doom franz von papen german agent hotel room kill kurt katch nazi germany newspaper publisher question rescue soviet spy wound |
| musicBy | Friedrich Hollaender |
| producer | Jerry Wald |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| theme | spy stag |