Squadron Leader X

Squadron Leader X (1943)

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?

Erscheinungsdatum
1943-03-01
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 39 Min.
Genres
Drama, Kriegsfilm
Regie
Lance Comfort

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Squadron Leader X is a 1943 British World War II spy drama directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm, adapted from a short story by Emeric Pressburger. The BFI National Archive considers the film "missing, believed lost". The archive contains script and stills, but no film or video materials.

Production

Squadron Leader X featured a Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft and a Klemm Kl 25 light aircraft. In a contemporary review, The Cinema declared: "The air-sequences, made with official Air Ministry co-operation, are among the most actionful and breath-taking ever screened".

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