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Orders to Kill (1958) Anthony Asquith; Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish

Orders to Kill (1958) Anthony Asquith; Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish

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This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.The moral dilemma of a reluctant American spy is chronicled in this psychological drama. He becomes an agent after he, originally a pilot, is grounded during WW II. He is trained to assassinate a Paris lawyer suspected of colluding with the Nazis. During his rigorous training for the killing, the new spy begins to have doubts about his upcoming assignment; these doubts increase when he actually meets his prey as the spy is unsure that the lawyer is really guilty...

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MARGARET ROBERTS from WHEATON, IL United States
January 27, 2022
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JOHN CURRAN from Palm Desert, CA United States
September 25, 2021
Takes its time but a pretty good movie
This story takes a while to fully engage your interest but once the real story gets underway, this is a very good film about British intelligence and the French resistance in WWII. It has a really good twist at the end.
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F. REYNOLDS CLOUGH from MIAMI, FL United States
October 13, 2015
a quietly powerful suspense thriller gem
This somewhat obscure British war suspenser deserves to be championed as one of the all-time best thrillers ever made! Starkly filmed and sparsely scored, it has an unnerving, unrelentingly grim tone in gripping, edge-of-your-seat suspense worthy of Hitchcock. Uniformly fine acting, with British Academy Award winners Irene Worth and Paul Massie particularly outstanding. For all aficionados of i
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Kenneth Orme from Ligonier, PA United States
September 1, 2015
ORDERS TO KILL
Anthony Asquith depicts quite powerfully the moral quandary of an assassin who becomes over-friendly with his targeted victim, causing doubts to surface about the rumored double agent's disloyalty. Does a wartime context nullify normal procedures for determining guilt and administrating justice? Cinematography employs superb atmospheric lighting to build suspense. An over-insistent melodramatic sc
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