Spy in the Sky!
Spy in the Sky! | |
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Directed by | W. Lee Wilder |
Written by | Myles Wilder |
Based on | Counterspy Express by Albert Sidney Fleischman |
Produced by | W. Lee Wilder |
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Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
Edited by | Lien d' Oliveyra Loet Roozekrans |
Music by | Hugo de Groot |
Production company | W. Lee Wilder Productions |
Distributed by |
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Release date | 20 July 1958 |
Running time | 75 minutes |
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Language | English |
Spy in the Sky! is a 1958 American-British spy thriller film directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring Steve Brodie, Andrea Domburg and George Coulouris.[1]
The film is based on the 1954 novel Counterspy Express by Albert Sidney Fleischman.[2] It was shot at the in Amsterdam and on location in Vienna.
Synopsis[]
A German scientist who knows the secrets of the Sputnik rocket programme goes on the run from the Soviets.
Cast[]
- Steve Brodie as Vic Cabot
- as Eve Brandisi
- Andrea Domburg as Alexandrine Duvivier
- George Coulouris as Col. Benedict
- as Sidney Jardine
- as Dr. Fritz Keller, alias Hans Krauss
- as Pepi Vidor
- as Fritzi
- as Martin, consul's representative
- as Agent Max Maxwell
- as Soldier
- as Gypsy Singer
- as Pawnbroker
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Pomerance, Murray (ed.) American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
- Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. McFarland, 2017.
External links[]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1958 films
- 1950s thriller films
- American films
- American spy thriller films
- British films
- British spy thriller films
- Films directed by W. Lee Wilder
- Allied Artists films
- Films shot in Amsterdam
- Films shot in Vienna
- Films based on American novels
- Thriller film stubs