Orders To Kill
1957
ORDERS TO KILL is a psychological drama about a young American bomber pilot (played by Paul Massie , winner of the Most Promising Newcomer to Film Award at the 1959 BAFTA Film Awards) who is sent to Nazi-occupied France to kill a Paris lawyer (Eddie Albert – ROMAN HOLIDAY) believed to be betraying his colleagues in the French .. Read more
| Starring | Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish |
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| Director | Anthony Asquith |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
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Orders To Kill
ORDERS TO KILL is a psychological drama about a young American bomber pilot (played by Paul Massie , winner of the Most Promising Newcomer to Film Award at the 1959 BAFTA Film Awards) who is sent to Nazi-occupied France to kill a Paris lawyer (Eddie Albert – ROMAN HOLIDAY) believed to be betraying his colleagues in the French Resistance. Before being parachuted into France the young pilot is given a rigorous training for his assignment of murder. He finds his selected victim is a gentle henpecked husband, who dotes on his daughter, and he begins to feel that the man may not be guilty… But where will his moral dilemma lead him?
| Starring | Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish |
|---|---|
| Director | Anthony Asquith |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 47 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 17 Aug 2009 Production year: 1957 |
| Format | DVD |
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A way above average Asquith film, this is a WWII drama, with Massie sent to Occupied Paris to kill a Resistance leader... read more on Time Out
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To kill or not to kill
People seem to be slowly forgetting Anthony Asquith, which is a pity as he made a lot of good films in a long career. These days most of us know him only by the ones that turn up on TV from time to time. But there’s a lot beyond ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ and ‘The VIPs’. For instance, ‘The Woman in Question’ – the British ‘Rashomon’ – should particularly not be missed, nor his Terence Rattigan adaptations. So well done Optimum for bringing us this relative rarity, a work that explores the moral dilemmas of war in a way rarely equalled. True, the opening ‘American’ sequence is rather stilted, but the narrative steps up a gear when it shifts to England, and then another when the dramatic events in France start to unfold. A serious and engaging work.
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