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Assignment: Paris
From Columbia Pictures
Paris ... a city made for excitement ... excitement on a night made for murder !
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Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
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Directed by Robert Parrish
Dana AndrewsJimmy Race
George SandersNicholas Strang
Audrey TotterSandy Tate
Märta TorénJeanne Moray
Sandro GiglioGabor Czeki, alias Grisha
Donald RandolphAnton Borvitch
Herbert BerghofPrime Minister Andreas Ordy
Ben AstarMinister of Justice Vajos
Willis BoucheyBiddle, an EditorEarl LeeDad Pelham
Jay AdlerHenry (uncredited)Frank ArnoldFrench Reporter (uncredited)Videos
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CinemaSerfDec 3, 2023
Dana Andrews is one-man newspaper "Race" who is transferred to the Paris office where he works for veteran "Nick" (George Sanders) whilst trying to prize his girlfriend "Jeanne" (Märta Torén) away from him. She resists but he persists and she is soon beginning to fall for his charms. Luckily for "Nick" though, a situation develops when an American citizen is sentenced to twenty years in an Hungarian prison for espionage. "Race" is sent to follow up the story and soon finds hi… Read more
mself arrested and embroiled in a plot that involves the highest level of the Government and some secret meetings that might well annoy the Soviets. "Nick" and "Jeanne" now have to find a way of obtaining freedom for the writer and getting to the bottom of this conspiracy. This film moves along well with some engaging characterisations from Andrews, Sanders and Torén. It mixes romance and political intrigue with less emphasis on the first aspect and there's some torture and a bit of sarcasm before a denouement that smacked very much of a John Le Carré novel. I enjoyed this.