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When a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.When a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.When a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.
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- Sheldon Reynolds(story based on an original treatment)
- Harold Jack Bloom(story based on an original treatment by)
- Gene Levitt(story based on an original treatment by)
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- Sheldon Reynolds(story based on an original treatment)
- Harold Jack Bloom(story based on an original treatment by)
- Gene Levitt(story based on an original treatment by)
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- Sheldon Reynolds(story based on an original treatment)
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- Gene Levitt(story based on an original treatment by)
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Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was black-mailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during WW2. —Mattias Thuresson
- male male relationship
- male female relationship
- mother daughter relationship
- femme fatale
- female sexual predator
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- Robert Mitchum is the hunted . . . Europe is the hunting ground !
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- Approved
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- TriviaAccording to the Internet Movie Car Database the car Mitchum drives off in at the beginning of the film is a 1949 Delahaye 135 Cabriolet Chapron.
- Quotes
Dave Bishop: Did you ever ask him who he really was?
Dominique: No.
Dave Bishop: Women are supposed to be curious... especially wives.
Dominique: Press agents are supposed to be curious.
Dave Bishop: I wasn't married to him.
Dominique: Except for the ceremony, neither was I.
- ConnectionsFollows Foreign Intrigue (1951)
- SoundtracksFOREIGN INTRIGUE CONCERTO
Music by Charlie Norman
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Intelligent and Beautifully-Photographed Noir Mystery; Classic Sleeper
This is my idea, as a writer, of a great ethical mystery. The intelligent narrative tells the story of an American working for a mysterious and very wealthy man named Victor Danemore. One day at his estate on the French Riviera, the great man, played by Jean Galland, dies. Robert Mitchum as Dave, the assistant, goes to the man's wife, lovely Genevive Page, for information; she knows nothing either. His odyssey to try to find out what he needs to know about his mysterious employer leads him to Vienna and to Stockholm--and finally to the fact that Danemore had been blackmailing Nazi collaborators who were afraid their wartime crimes would be discovered. At the end, having been saved narrowly from the bad guys, who are actually good guys testing his ethics, he goes off to seek out the real ex-Nazi collaborator bad guys in as many countries as he must; by then the lovely young woman he has fallen in love with, Ingrid Thulin (brilliant as always) is going to be waiting for him. This is a project conceived by Sheldon Reynolds, who wrote the script along with Gene Levitt and Harold Jack Bloom and also directed this fascinating movie. He was also the mind behind another Euro-American on-location project, "Dateline:Europe", one of the best half-hour TV series of all time,one which utilized (as this feature movie) does European technicians, actors, locations and artists. (When people talk about " the sorts of movies 'they' used to make and don't or can't any more", this is the sort of international, intelligent, adult and well-scripted film to which the disappointed are referring). The music here by Paul Durand is good, the cinematography by Bertil Palmgren frequently stunning. The piece also has many actors in small but telling parts, including Inga Tingblad as Thulin's mother, George Hubert, Frederick Schreidler, etc. They are all professional and exactly right for their parts; and all the parts contribute to a whole that moves with the inexorability of a tide toward a satisfying climax and an unforgettable ending. A personal favorite.
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- Jun 29, 2005
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- Budget
- $625,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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