Overview
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the Oscar for Best Story (1941)
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Setting
Set in Moscow
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Music
Music by Bronisław Kaper
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg and Karl Freund
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Charles LedererScreenplay
- Ben HechtScreenplay
- Walter ReischOriginal Story
- Herman J. MankiewiczWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 13, 1940
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
Production
Cast
Clark GableMcKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson
Hedy LamarrGolubka / Theodore Yahupitz / Lizvanetchka 'Lizzie'
Oskar HomolkaCommissar Vasiliev
Felix BressartIgor Yahupitz / Vanya
Eve ArdenJane Wilson
Sig RumanEmil Von Hofer
Natasha LytessOlga Milanova
Vladimir SokoloffMichael Bastakoff
Edgar BarrierRubick
Georges RenaventLaszlo
Leon BelascoComrade Baronoff
Michael MarkGoronoff- Alex MeleshEffeminate Streetcar Conductor
Sven Hugo BorgStreetcar Passenger
John BleiferRussian Marriage License Clerk / Russian Tank Co-Pilot
Shimen RuskinRussian Bridegroom- Alexander AsroRussian Waiter
Mikhail RasumnyRussian Officer- Ilia KhmaraRussian Man
- Lici BallaRussian Woman
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