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Orders to Kill (1958)
Director: Anthony Asquith
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A way above average Asquith film, this is a WWII drama, with Massie sent to Occupied Paris to kill a Resistance leader (French) suspected of being a Nazi collaborator. But his target turns out to be a mild-mannered family man with Lillian Gish for a mother. Despite his doubts (later proved to be well-founded), the deed is done, and the movie starts to focus on Massie's later life. Working well in the first half as a thriller, it then turns into a Graham Greene-like, intensely Catholic study of the conflict between conscience and duty.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: Anthony Asquith
Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan
Cast: Paul Massie, Irene Worth, Lillian Gish, Eddie Albert, Leslie French, James Robertson Justice, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne, Jacques Brunius full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 111 mins
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