Mission spéciale (1946) - film review

War / Drama / Thriller

Summary

May 1940. Commissioner Chabrier, a National Security operative, is about to capture a gang of spies who, under a cover of respectability, have been supplying secrets to the German High Command. One of the spies is Emmy de Wilder, the seemingly blameless director of a hospital in Rouen. The debacle at Dunkirk prevents Chabrier from fulfilling his mission but he refuses to admit defeat. He heads for the southwest of France with his men, determined to succeed...

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Credits

Director: Maurice de Canonge
Script: Simon Gantillon
Photo: Georges Million
Music: Jacques Dupont
Cast: Jany Holt (Emmy de Welder), Pierre Renoir (Moravetz-Landberg), Jean Davy (Chabrier), André Carnège (Le contrôleur général), Raymond Cordy (Mérignac), Marcel Delaître (Le colonel Kleider), Louis Florencie (Le chef de gare), Alain Gilbert (Le tuberculeux), Jérôme Goulven (Staub), Roger Karl (Poldermann-Roechel), Léo Lapara (Péroni), Jacques Roussel (Carlos), Liliane Valais (Hélène de Moreuil), Jean Yonnel (Sartène)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 90 min; B&W
Aka: Special Mission

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