Desperate Moment (1953)
TERROR races through the streets of BERLIN!
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
- Date of release
- 1953-03-17
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Thriller
- Director
- Compton Bennett
Casting
- Dirk Bogarde — Simon Van Halder
- Mai Zetterling — Anna DeBurg
- Philip Friend — Capt. Bob Sawyer
- Albert Lieven — Paul Ravitch, alias Schleger
- Fritz Wendhausen — Warder Goeter
- Carl Jaffe — Cellblock Guard Becker
- Gerard Heinz — German Prison Doctor
- Andre Mikhelson — Polizei Inspector
- Harold Ayer — Capt. Trevor Wood, U.S. Army
- Walter Gotell — Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
- Friedrich Joloff — Valentin Vladek, alias Winter
- Simone Silva — Mink, Valentin's girl
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