Squadron Leader X (1943)

10.0/10 99 min Drama War

Overview

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?

Cast

Eric Portman

Erich Kohler

Ann Dvorak

Barbara Lucas

Walter Fitzgerald

Inspector Milne

Martin Miller

Mr. Krohn

Beatrice Varley

Mrs. Krohn

Henry Oscar

Dr. Schultz

Barry Jones

Bruce Fenwick

David Peel

Michael Bertholt

Charles Victor

Marks

Mary Merrall

Miss Thorndike

Carl Jaffe

Luftwaffe Colonel

Marjorie Rhodes

Mrs. Agnew

Friedrich Richter

Inspector Siegel

Aubrey Mallalieu

Pierre

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