Passport to Suez

Passport to Suez (1943)

FICTION'S FAMOUS RASCAL takes on a formidable hotbed of spies!

The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.

Date of release
1943-08-19
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Director
André de Toth
Collection
Lone Wolf Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Passport to Suez is the 20th film featuring the Lone Wolf character. It was the eleventh of fifteen in the Columbia Pictures series, and the last to star Warren William as the lead character, a jewel thief turned private detective. The Lone Wolf battles Nazi spies in Egypt in World War II. The character's next film was The Notorious Lone Wolf.

Production

Principal photography under the working titles of A Night of Adventure and The Clock Strikes Twelve, took place from April 29 to May 18, 1943. The "Lone Wolf" title character was played by Warren William in his last of nine films in which he portrayed the jewel thief turned private detective, a character created by Louis Joseph Vance (1879–1933) in a series of eight novels published between 1914 and 1934.

Director Andre de Toth who was a staple in B-movies of the 1940s, provided his typical treatment. "His most enduring legacy, especially to later directors and film students, was a series of superb B movies – mostly westerns and crime dramas that he made in the late 1940s and 1950s. They were gritty, psychologically acute and unflinchingly violent." Henry Levin was a dialogue director.

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