Orders to Kill

Orders to Kill (1958)

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.

Date of release
1958-07-25
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
War, Thriller, Drama
Director
Anthony Asquith

Casting

Interesting facts

Orders to Kill is a 1958 British wartime drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Paul Massie, Eddie Albert and Irene Worth. It was written by Paul Dehn and George St. George, based on a story by Donald Chase Downes, a former American intelligence operative who also acted as technical adviser to the film.

Production

The film was based on an original story by Donald Downes, an OSS operative involved in numerous missions during the war. He later became a writer; his novel Orders to Kill was published after the film was shot.

The silent movie actress Lillian Gish appears as the hero's mother.

Producer Tony Havelock-Allan said the idea for the film was brought to him by director Anthony Asquith. The producer felt it "would have been better with a harder, sharper edge to it. It needed to be conceived more harshly. Both the films I did with Puffin [Asquith's nickname] were well made, well crafted, but the impact was soft and did not grip a worldwide audience.

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