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25 July 1958 (Finland) morePlot:
American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Won 3 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 3 nominations moreUser Comments:
Careless Orders to Kill more (11 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Eddie Albert | ... | Maj. MacMahon |
| Paul Massie | ... | Gene Summers |
 | Lillian Gish | ... | Mrs. Summers |
| James Robertson Justice | ... | Naval Commander |
| Irene Worth | ... | Leonie |
| Leslie French | ... | Marcel Lafitte |
| John Crawford | ... | Maj. Kimball |
| Lionel Jeffries | ... | Interrogator |
| Sandra Dorne | ... | Blonde with german officer |
| Nicholas Phipps | ... | Lecturer lieutenant |
| Anne Blake | ... | Mme. Lafitte |
| Miki Iveria | ... | Louise |
| Lillie Bea Gifford | ... | Mauricette |
| Launce Maraschal | ... | Gen. Nolan |
| Robert Henderson | ... | Col. Snyder |
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What I remember most about this film is the way the idealistic young soldier in manipulated by a wheeler-dealer senior officer who is essentially a self serving bureaucrat. It rings so true of what can happen in such situations. The mission is based on flawed intelligence. It is poorly planed and puts the young operative at greater than necessary risk. In a way it is a microcosm of larger events with which we are all too familiar.
As it turns out in the film, an innocent man is killed, a young man must live with act of killing an innocent harmless man in cold blood. For the senior officer who issued the orders, it is just a bureaucratic error. Nott really anyone's fault and he is very preoccupied with getting his fat butt over to Paris as soon as it is liberated.
I wish this film were still available. I think it would be very beneficial for young people to see to help them recognize one of the more subtle forms of evil so well represented. Maybe that is one of the true benefits of film art, it broadens our experience without the negative consequences that can result. As for the young man in the film, he had to learn the hard way.