Background to Danger
1943 film by Raoul Walsh / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Background to Danger is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film starring George Raft and featuring Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre.
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Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
Written by | W.R. Burnett |
Based on | Uncommon Danger 1937 novel by Eric Ambler |
Produced by | Jerry Wald |
Starring | George Raft Brenda Marshall Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre |
Cinematography | Tony Gaudio |
Edited by | Jack Killifer |
Music by | Frederick Hollander |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.3 million (US rentals)[1] |
Based on the 1937 novel Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler and set in politically neutral Turkey, the screenplay was credited to W. R. Burnett, although William Faulkner and Daniel Fuchs[2] also contributed. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh.
The film was designed to capitalize on the runaway success of Casablanca, which had also featured Lorre and Greenstreet. The Russian operative positively portrayed by Brenda Marshall shows an exaggerated degree of cooperation,[3] and the film has a slight pro-Soviet bias akin to Warners' Mission to Moscow from the same year.
Walsh called the film "a quickie".[4]