Assignment: Paris
Paris ... a city made for excitement ... excitement on a night made for murder !
1952 | 85m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Robert Parrish |
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| Writer: | William Bowers, Walter Goetz, Jack Palmer White, Pauline Gallico, Paul Gallico |
| Staring: |
| Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 04, 1952 |
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| Director: | Robert Parrish |
| Writer: | William Bowers, Walter Goetz, Jack Palmer White, Pauline Gallico, Paul Gallico |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller |
| Keywords | paris, france, budapest, hungary, newspaper editor |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 21, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Willis Bouchey | Biddle, an Editor |
| Earl Lee | Dad Pelham |
| Jay Adler | Henry (uncredited) |
| Frank Arnold | French Reporter (uncredited) |
| Leon Askin | Franz (uncredited) |
| Hanna Axmann-Rezzori | Miss Oster (uncredited) |
| Paul Birch | Colonel Mannix (uncredited) |
| Gail Bonney | Phone Operator (uncredited) |
| Monique Chantal | Phone Operator (uncredited) |
| Gino Corrado | Hungarian Embassy Reporter (uncredited) |
| Marcel De La Brosse | Maitre d' (uncredited) |
| Maurice Doner | Victor (uncredited) |
| Joseph Forte | Barker (uncredited) |
| Paul Frees | Radio Budapest Announcer (uncredited) |
| Gene Gary | Receptionist (uncredited) |
| Don Gibson | Phone Operator (uncredited) |
| Sam Harris | Customer at Bar (uncredited) |
| Paul Hoffman | Kedor (uncredited) |
| Pál Jávor | Laslo Boros (uncredited) |
| Werner Klingler | Interrogator (uncredited) |
| Don Kohler | Bert (uncredited) |
| Rolf Lindau | Doctor (uncredited) |
| Maurice Marsac | Gendarme (uncredited) |
| Michele Montau | Airport Receptionist (uncredited) |
| György Nagyajtay | Borvitch's Aide (uncredited) |
| Charles H. Radilak | Antique Dealer (uncredited) |
| Suzanne Ridgway | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
| Fay Roope | American Ambassador (uncredited) |
| Vito Scotti | Italian Reporter (uncredited) |
| André Siméon | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Robert Stevenson | Army Doctor (uncredited) |
| Victor Sutherland | Larry O'Connell (uncredited) |
| Albert Szabo | Recorder (uncredited) |
| Hal Taggart | Herald Tribune Staffer (uncredited) |
| Ken Terrell | Military Aide (uncredited) |
| Sigfrid Tor | Swedish Reporter (uncredited) |
| Peter J. Votrian | Jan Czeki (uncredited) |
| Murvyn Vye | Medical Officer at Prisoner Exchange (uncredited) |
| Georgiana Wulff | Gogo Czeki (uncredited) |
| Mari Blanchard | Wanda Marlowe (scenes deleted) |
| William Woodson | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert Parrish | Director |
| William Bowers | Screenplay |
| Frank Tuttle | Set Decoration |
| Jean Louis | Costume Design |
| George Duning | Original Music Composer |
| Carter DeHaven | Assistant Director |
| Morris Stoloff | Music Director |
| Walter Goetz | Adaptation |
| Jack Palmer White | Adaptation |
| Pauline Gallico | Story |
| Paul Gallico | Story |
| Ray Cory | Director of Photography |
| Burnett Guffey | Director of Photography |
| Charles Nelson | Editor |
| Donald W. Starling | Editor |
| John Meehan | Art Direction |
| Clay Campbell | Makeup Artist |
| Helen Hunt | Hairstylist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jerry Bresler | Producer |
| Samuel Marx | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 3 |
| 2024 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 2 |
| 2024 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
| 2024 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Trending Position
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 "Ni ... ck" 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.