Background to danger [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; screenplay by W.R. Burnett ; produced by Jerry Wald ; directed by Raoul Walsh.
Material type:
FilmSeries: Archive collectionPublication details: Burbank, CA : Distributed Warner Home Video, [2010]Edition: Remastered edDescription: 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Director of photography, Tony Gaudio; editor, Jack Killifer; music, Frederick Hollander.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Eric Ambler's intriguing novel Uncommon Danger is brought down to a Republic serial level in Warner Bros.' Background to Danger. George Raft, who always seems miscast, plays an American undercover intelligence agent operating in Turkey. Sultry Osa Massen passes on some valuable secret papers to Raft just before she is killed. Our Hero then finds himself at the mercy of enemy agent Sidney Greenstreet, who knows that the papers contain Nazi plans to invade Turkey. Despite several brutal beatings, Raft and his cohorts Peter Lorre (a good guy for a change) and Brenda Marshall turn the tables on Greenstreet. Background to Danger was the first of many Warner Bros. follow-ups to the studio's megahit Casablanca; it's also the film wherein the prankish Peter Lorre stole George Raft's hat between takes--an affront that rankled the touchy Raft to his dying day. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."--Container.
Based on the novel Uncommon danger by Eric Ambler.
Includes trailer.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943 by Warner Bros.
Title from container.
Director of photography, Tony Gaudio; editor, Jack Killifer; music, Frederick Hollander.
George Raft, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Osa Massen, Turhan Bey, Willard Robertson, Kurt Katch.
A United States agent posing as an American machinery salesman in Turkey, finds himself enmeshed in a maze of plots and counter-plots to draw neutral Turkey into the war on the Nazi side.
Not rated.
DVD; NTSC, all regions; Dolby digital; Full screen 4x3, 1.33:1.