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      • Desperate Moment is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling and Philip Friend. It is based on the 1951 novel of the same title by Martha Albrand.
      It was made at Pinewood Studios and on location in West Germany including scenes shot at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The film's sets were designed by the art director Maurice Carter.


      Plot


      In the years immediately after World War II, a Dutchman, ex resistance, is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder, committed during a robbery, that he confessed to but did not commit. After discovering that the girl he has loved since childhood is not dead, as he had been told, he escapes from prison and goes on the run through a devastated Germany in search of the witnesses who can clear him, with her help. But the witnesses begin to die apparently accidental deaths shortly before he finds them...


      Cast


      Dirk Bogarde as Simon Van Halder
      Mai Zetterling as Anna DeBurg
      Philip Friend as Captain Bob Sawyer
      Albert Lieven as Paul Ravitch
      Fritz Wendhausen as Warder Goeter
      Carl Jaffe as Becker
      Gerard Heinz as German Prison Doctor
      André Mikhelson as Polizei Inspector
      Harold Ayer as Captain Trevor Wood
      Walter Gotell as Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
      Friedrich Joloff as Valentin Vladek
      Simone Silva as Mink, Valentin's girl
      Ferdy Mayne as Detective Laurence
      Walter Rilla as Colonel Bertrand, Dutch consulate
      Antonio Gallardo as Spanish Dancer
      Paul Hardtmuth as Wharf Watchman
      Theodore Bikel as Anton Meyer


      Critical reception


      The New York Times wrote, "the sum and substance of this production...is a great deal of panting exercise within and all over two cities, offering little about which to care" whereas TV Guide found it "quite suspenseful, with Bogarde turning in an exceptionally fine performance."


      References




      External links


      Desperate Moment at IMDb

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