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Foreign Intrigue
Original film poster
Directed bySheldon Reynolds
Written bySheldon Reynolds
Produced bySheldon Reynolds
StarringRobert Mitchum
Geneviève Page
Ingrid Thulin
Inga Tidblad
CinematographyBertil Palmgren
Edited byLennart Wallen
Music byPaul Durand
Production
companies
Sheldon Reynold Productions
Mandeville Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • May 28, 1956 (1956年5月28日) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Swedish
  • French
Box office1ドル million (US)[1]

Foreign Intrigue is a 1956 American Eastmancolor film noir crime film starring Robert Mitchum.[2] The film is written, produced and directed by Sheldon Reynolds, who had produced a television series called Foreign Intrigue in 1951.

Foreign Intrigue was one of the first major Hollywood films to be based on a popular TV series.

Plot

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One of the world’s richest men, Victor Danemore, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his palatial estate on the French Riviera. His secretary, Dave Bishop (Robert Mitchum), is repeatedly asked by a diverse cast of characters whether or not the man spoke any last words before dying. Though he did not, nobody seems satisfied with that answer.

Surprisingly, not even his young wife of seven years knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. A mysterious letter that Danemore composed eight years earlier, just before exploding onto the international scene as a man of intrigue and immense wealth, piques Bishop to learn more about his employer's secret past.

Left behind in the custody of a Viennese attorney, it leads Bishop into a dangerous world of espionage and blackmail. The attorney is murdered before their appointed rendezvous, and the letter disappears.

Bishop soon discovers he’s gained a shadow, Spring, hired by a veiled figure to first follow then kill him. Consciousness - and cunning - at the first task, he postpones the second and instead proposes an alliance to double-cross his boss and share in riches to come.

Clues lead Bishop to Stockholm, then back to Vienna, where he learns that Danemore was one of numerous Quislings recruited by Adolf Hitler prior to World War II to serve as Gauleiters when Germany successfully invaded and conquered their countries.

In five cases - England, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, and the United States - Germany failed to take power. Danemore had been the envoy arranged to aid in the conquest of Russia. He was blackmailing the other four collaborators by threatening to reveal their identities. The one in Sweden couldn’t stand it anymore and committed suicide, but his wife ardently continued the payments to protect her reputation.

Abducted by an envoy of Swiss counterintelligence, Bishop is enlisted by a quorum of representatives of the remaining three countries’ intelligence services to work on their behalf in revealing the names of their collaborators.

With a threatening widow - who’d stop at nothing to take her late husband’s place - detained by the intelligence faction, and the adoring, independent-willed daughter of the late Swedish kingpin waiting for him, Bishop departs with Spring for England to turn the tables on his employer.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956', Variety Weekly, January 2, 1957
  2. ^ Foreign Intrigue at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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