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Squadron Leader X

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Original title

Squadron Leader X

Year

1943

Running time

99 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Lance Comfort

Screenwriter

Miles Malleson, Wolfgang Wilhelm. Story: Emeric Pressburger

Cast

Music

William Alwyn

Cinematography

Mutz Greenbaum (B&W)

Producer

Victor Hanbury Productions, RKO Radio British Productions

Genre

Drama. War | II World War. Spy Film

Synopsis

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?

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Squadron Leader X

1943

Lance Comfort