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1957

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Starring	Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish
Director	Anthony Asquith
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama

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	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 47 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1957 To Rent: DVD: 17 Aug 2009

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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... read more »
  
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  Realities of War
  
  This is one of a number of British films made in the late 1950s about the Second World War, and unusual in that it deals with moral ambiguities rather than ... read more »
  
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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... read more »
  
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  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 ...