State Secret (1950) on Netflix
Passed19501h 44mDramaRomanceThriller
American surgeon John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia for a medical award. He learns that his patient is the country's dictator, and the state police hunt him. Actress Lisa Robinson helps him.
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Plot summary
Vosnia invites Dr. John Marlowe, an American surgeon then working in England, to receive the Kepler Gold Medal and to demonstrate his operating methods. He agrees, and finds during the procedure that his patient is General Niva, the dictator. Before the operation Marlowe had spoken with Colonel Galcon, who holds several ministries, including state security, and he concludes that he has learned more than the government can allow. He slips away while attention is elsewhere and the state police pursue him. Calls to the American embassy come close to trapping him. He hides in a theater, hears a woman singing in English, and goes backstage to ask Lisa Robinson for help. A barber's coat, handed to him by mistake, holds the papers of Karl Theodor.
Cast
- Hans Olaf Moseras Sigrist
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about State Secret (1950)
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- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. said the Italian shoot was difficult because some Italians thought the film was anti-Communist and others that it was pro-Communist, and the unit had to avoid riots.
- The film's fictitious "Vosnian" language was invented for it by a linguistics expert, who combined Latin and Slavic elements.
- Another Hollywood star was announced in July 1949 to play the female lead, but by August the part had gone to Glynis Johns.
