Background to Danger (1943) |
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| Director(s) | Raoul Walsh |
| Producer(s) | Jack L. Warner, Jerry Wald |
| Top Genres | Drama, Thriller/Suspense, War |
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George Raft(as Joe Barton)
Background to Danger
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1943
Background to Danger
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1943
George Raft
(as Joe Barton)
Brenda Marshall(as Tamara Zaleshoff)
Background to Danger
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1943
Background to Danger
Released
1943
Brenda Marshall
(as Tamara Zaleshoff)
Sydney Greenstreet(as Colonel Robinson)
Background to Danger
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1943
Background to Danger
Released
1943
Sydney Greenstreet
(as Colonel Robinson)
Peter Lorre(as Nikolai Zaleshoff)
Background to Danger
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1943
Background to Danger
Released
1943
Peter Lorre
(as Nikolai Zaleshoff)
Osa Massen(as Ana Remzi)
Background to Danger
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1943
Background to Danger
Released
1943
Osa Massen
(as Ana Remzi)
Turhan Bey(as Hassan)
Background to Danger
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1943
Background to Danger
Released
1943
Turhan Bey
(as Hassan)
Kurt Katch(as Mailler)
Background to Danger
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1943
Background to Danger
Released
1943
Kurt Katch
(as Mailler)
Pedro de Cordoba(as Baba)
Background to Danger
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1943
Background to Danger
Released
1943
Pedro de Cordoba
(as Baba)
Background to Danger Overview:
Background to Danger (1943) was a Drama - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Jack L. Warner and Jerry Wald.
SYNOPSIS
Nazis, Soviets, and American agent Raft are all after a cache of secret documents in the mysterious back alleys of WWII Turkey. A great, fast-moving spy tale handled expertly by Walsh. Based on Eric Ambler's Uncommon Danger.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
Background to Danger Quotes:
Mailler:
[Pointing a gun] Keep moving. Understand?
Joe Barton: [Reacting to the gun] That's on language I do understand.
Joe Barton: [Reacting to the gun] That's on language I do understand.
Joe Barton:
There's a couple of numbers that won't do you any good. They're in Brooklyn.
Colonel Robinson:
Curious touch of the grotesque: A dead man on the floor; a condemned man sitting before me; and a Strauss waltz as a funeral march. What could be more entertaining?
Colonel Robinson:
[To Rudick] In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.
Nikolai Zaleshoff:
Oh, you Americans, always in a hurry, hurry, business, business!
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Rudick is referred to as being 52 years old my Col. Robinson. Actor Frank Reicher looks every year his real age - 68.
Actor Steven Geray mispronounces the capital of Turkey as ANN-KAHRA.
The three photographs of possible Roumanian secret agents which McNamara shows Joe were those of the Warner Bros. contract players 'Paul Panzer', Glen Cavender and Stuart Holmes. Those three are not actually in the movie. The fourth photograph was that of Leo White who is seen in an early scene whispering in someone's ear.
This film is mentioned in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" as the second in a double feature seen by Sal and Dean in a Detroit theater (chapter 11 of part three).
Sydney Greenstreet filmed a special trailer where he talks directly to the camera.