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Director:
Writers:
Eric Ambler (novel)
W.R. Burnett (screenplay)
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Release Date:
3 July 1943 (USA) more
Tagline:
Love in the midst of intrigue!
Plot:
Ankara in neutral Turkey : World War Two. A town of intrigue and of provocateurs. The Germans are planning... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
The wrong man more (16 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | George Raft | ... | Joe Barton |
 | Brenda Marshall | ... | Tamara Zaleshoff |
 | Sydney Greenstreet | ... | Colonel Robinson |
 | Peter Lorre | ... | Nikolai Zaleshoff |
 | Osa Massen | ... | Ana Remzi |
| Turhan Bey | ... | Hassan |
| Willard Robertson | ... | 'Mac' McNamara |
| Kurt Katch | ... | Mailler |
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Runtime:
80 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Australia:G | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #8833)
Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
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The three photographs of possible Roumanian secret agents which McNamara shows Joe were those of the Warner Bros. contract players 'Paul Panzer', Glen Cavender and Stuart Holmes. Those three are not actually in the movie. The fourth photograph was that of Leo White who is seen in an early scene whispering in someone's ear. more
Quotes:
Nikolai Zaleshoff:
How did you know the gun wasn't loaded?
Joe Barton:
By its weight.
Nikolai Zaleshoff:
There might have been one bullet in it.
Joe Barton:
That's the chance I had to take.
Nikolai Zaleshoff:
YOU had to take?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Warner at War (2008) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), Op.388 more
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Yet another attempt a la "Casablanca" to whip up excitement by placing a homely middle-aged American among exotic foreigners, this might have been tolerable had they just lost the dull, abrasive George Raft altogether and made the ultrafoxy Turhan Bey the leading man from the beginning. As it is, the film lights up the moment this dazzling hunk makes his first appearance as a clerk behind a tobacconist's counter, and the entire first half of the film that's gone before seems like a hopeless waste. And that's WITH Peter Lorre. After Lorre's gone, forget it, you can stop the tape.