Secret ways
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Secret ways |
| Original title | The Secret Ways |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Phil Karlson |
| script | Jean Hazlewood |
| production | Richard Widmark |
| music | John Williams |
| camera | Mutz Greenbaum |
| cut | Aaron Stell |
| occupation | |
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Geheimewege (Original title: The Secret Ways ) is an American spy film with Richard Widmark , Sonja Ziemann and Senta Berger from 1961. Alistair MacLean's novel Beyond the Border ( The Last Frontier , 1959) served as a literary template .
action
The US secret agent Michael Reynolds, during the Cold War, tasked in Hungary to save an anti-communist professor named Jancsi, who works for an underground movement from liquidation by the secret police and him safely to bring to the West. First Reynolds travels to Vienna , where he meets Jancsi's daughter Julia, whom he can persuade to help him and to travel with him to Budapest .
When they get there, Reynolds is kidnapped by resistance fighters and taken to the professor's hiding place. At about the same time, the Hungarian secret police succeed in arresting one of Jancsi's loyal followers and forcing him to reveal Jancsi's whereabouts. Thereupon Jancsi, Julia and Reynolds are arrested by the secret police and taken to a prison, where they are tortured by the sadistic Colonel Hidas.
They are finally rescued by a resistance fighter who calls himself "The Count" by tricking the communists into believing that he is one of them and placing the prisoners under his supervision. However, the ruse is exposed and the count is killed while Reynolds, Jancsi and Julia escape to the airport. An airplane is already waiting for them there, with which they will leave Hungary. Colonel Hidas, who was chasing her, dies on the runway trying to stop her.
background
The shooting took place in 1960 in Vienna and Zurich .
The thriller hit US cinemas in April 1961 . In Germany was secret paths first shown on 31 August 1961st In October of the same year the film was also released in Austria .
Reviews
For the lexicon of international film , Secret Paths was "[e] in effectively staged espionage thriller with atmospheric photography". The verdict from Cinema was similarly positive: “Atmospheric, respectable agent hunt”.
German version
The German dubbed version was created by Berliner Synchron based on the dialogue book by Fritz A. Koeniger . Klaus von Wahl was responsible for the dubbing .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Reynolds | Richard Widmark | Arnold Marquis |
| Julia | Sonja Ziemann | Sonja Ziemann |
| "The Earl" | Charles Regnier | Charles Regnier |
| Professor Jancsi | Walter Rilla | Walter Rilla |
| Elsa | Senta Berger | Senta Berger |
| Colonel Hidas | Howard Vernon | Gerd Martienzen |
| Minister Ferenc Sakenov | Heinz Moog | Walther Suessenguth |
| Hermann Scheffler | Hubert von Meyerinck | Hubert von Meyerinck |
| Bela Korver | Oskar Wegrostek | Stanislav Ledinek |
| Border guard | Stefan Schnabel | Curt Ackermann |
| Olga Kovac | Elisabeth Neumann district | Ursula War |
| Janos | Helmut Janatsch | Hans Hessling |
| Peter Monar | Walter Wilz | Claus Wilcke |
| Miklos Terenyi | Raoul Retzer | Toni Herbert |
| Horvath | Jochen Brockmann | Benno Hoffmann |
Web links
- Secret paths in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Secret Ways. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ Secret Ways. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 20, 2018 .