Assignment: Paris
"Paris ... a city made for excitement ... excitement on a night made for murder !"
Synopsis
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Principal Cast8

Dana Andrews
Jimmy Race

George Sanders
Nicholas Strang

Audrey Totter
Sandy Tate

Märta Torén
Jeanne Moray

Sandro Giglio
Gabor Czeki, alias Grisha

Donald Randolph
Anton Borvitch

Herbert Berghof
Prime Minister Andreas Ordy

Ben Astar
Minister of Justice Vajos
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Robert Parrish
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Reviews1
Dana Andrews is one-man newspaper "Race" who is transferred to the Paris office where he works for veteran "Nick" (George Sanders) whilst trying to prize his girlfriend "Jeanne" (Märta Torén) away from him. She resists but he persists and she is soon beginning to fall for his charms. Luckily for "Nick" though, a situation develops when an American citizen is sentenced to twenty years in an Hungarian prison for espionage. "Race" is sent to follow up the story and soon finds himself arrested and embroiled in a plot that involves the highest level of the Government and some secret meetings that might well annoy the Soviets. "Nick" and "Jeanne" now have to find a way of obtaining freedom for the writer and getting to the bottom of this conspiracy. This film moves along well with some engaging characterisations from Andrews, Sanders and Torén. It mixes romance and political intrigue with less emphasis on the first aspect and there's some torture and a bit of sarcasm before a denouement that smacked very much of a John Le Carré novel. I enjoyed this.
Dec 3, 2023
























