Betrayed (1954)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Betray |
| Original title | Betrayed |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| script |
George Froeschel Ronald Millar |
| production | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| music | Walter Goehr |
| camera | Frederick A. Young |
| cut |
John D. Dunning Raymund Poulton |
| occupation | |
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Betrayed is a 1953 US feature film by Gottfried Reinhardt against the backdrop of World War II, starring Clark Gable , Victor Mature , Lana Turner and OE Hasse as the German Wehrmacht colonel.
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The Netherlands, during the German occupation (1940 to 1945).
At the end of 1943, General Charles Larraby received a message from the British secret service from an agent in the Netherlands who was code-named "Rembrandt". He announced that he had obviously been exposed. It is the Dutch secret service officer Col. Pieter Deventer. Deventer is arrested by the German occupying forces and taken to Colonel Helmuth Dietrich. He offers Deventer his release should he volunteer as a double agent . Before Deventer can think twice, a local Dutch resistance unit under the leadership of a certain Cachenez, who goes by the cover name "The Scarf", attacks the German headquarters and frees Deventer. “The scarf” and his men take Pieter to their hiding place in a sawmill. There the officer is informed that this liberation attack was carried out on behalf of the British. Immediately afterwards, the radio reports indicate that the Germans are planning the execution of three prominent Dutch citizens the next day if Deventer does not return to German custody by then. In fact, Deventer does not succeed in complying with the request by then, and so the innocent Dutch are executed. Thereupon Col. Pieter Deventer remains at large and flees to England.
Six months have passed since that event and the Allies are on the verge of landing in Normandy (June 1944). Deventer visits his commander, General Ten Eyck, who informs him that Larraby wants to send an agent to Holland to act as a liaison between British intelligence and Cachenez. The general says the plan is to pass Carla van Oven, a Dutch woman living in England, as the musician and bar singer of Fran Saylor, who has collaborated with the Nazis for some time. Peter expresses concern about Carla's character and points out that she was linked to the Nazis even before her husband was killed. With her file under her arm, Pieter goes to Carla's apartment and confronts her with her questionable past. Carla insists that she loved her husband and wants to stand up for her country to avenge his death. Carla undergoes an intensive spy training program, but is injured during a parachute jump. Fearing for her safety, Pieter Carla, whom he trusts now, asks to keep away from espionage, but she replies that her work has become her most important purpose in life. Pieter and Carla begin to fall in love with each other.
Carla starts her mission as Fran Saylors after parachuting over Arnhem . It is collected by Cachenez. He informs her that the real Fran has already been killed for collaborating with the enemy. “The Scarf” soon proves to be a strange contemporary: his fight against the German occupiers does not seem to be due to a patriotic conviction, but rather the whole thing seems to him to be an adventure, a risky but all the more exciting game. Working for the British, as Carla demands, doesn't interest him, but Carla as a woman interests him all the more. Cachenez takes Carla to her quarters and gives her a passionate kiss in front of the landlady, Mrs. Gilder. Some time later, Carla receives a visit from a Wehrmacht officer , Captain von Stanger, who says that her (that is, Frans) presence at a German company in the coming week is desired. Cachenez's resistance group raids the celebration, and Jan Gilder, the patriotic grandson of Carla's landlady, almost killed the present Carla, of whose duplicity he does not know, because he, more precisely Fran, used her for a collaborator with the hated " Moffen " holds. At the last moment, Cachenez can stop the young hothead from his bloody act.
The next morning Carla tries to hand her rescuer, the leader of the resistance, an assignment that has arrived from London. Obviously not well-disposed towards the British, “the scarf” refuses to follow this instruction. Instead, he takes Carla home with him to meet his mother, to whom he is very attached. Cachenez is devastated to see that her head has been shaved - a sign of collaboration with the enemy. His brother Chris explains that the local Dutch are behind it. You have assumed both mother's that she had got involved with a German officer. Beside himself with anger, Cachenez agrees to Carla after all to carry out the British mission. One night Jan is seriously injured in a raid. Before he dies, the boy can tell Carla and his grandmother that he and his people were ambushed. There must be a traitor in their own ranks.
1944: Finally the Allied landings on the continent have begun, and finally the British also begin to liberate the Netherlands. Pieter van Deventer is sent to Arnhem to support Cachenez, whose organization has suffered considerable losses since working with the British. General Larraby assumes that Carla has betrayed the Dutch resistance group to the Nazis and asks Pieter to analyze the situation on site and get it under control. Meanwhile, Carla tells Cachenez that she believes he has been betrayed and pleads with him not to participate in the upcoming robbery the following evening. But “The Scarf” refuses. In the middle of the night, Pieter meets Carla in the room of the absent Cachenez and tells her that this resistance action has been a complete disaster. Carla does not know that Pieter now mistrusts her and assumes that she must be the informant in her own ranks. Carla tells Pieter that Cachenez himself could possibly be the traitor. She noticed that “The Scarf” always started its attacks when the moon was full, so that the other side could recognize the attackers and snipers could take them out. Cachenez himself would be protected if the Germans could easily spot their informers in these light conditions and not shoot him. Peter brusquely rejects this conspiracy theory. His behavior makes it clear to Carla that he too thinks she is the traitor. She is devastated.
Carla protests her innocence and is absolutely certain to Deventer that “The Scarf” will return unscathed from this venture. At that moment, the surviving resistance fighters arrive and report that Cachenez had been wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans. Embittered that he was obviously right about his worst fears about Carla, Col. Deventer has her arrested and leaves the young woman in the care of Cachenez's men. But as things develop, Pieter soon doubts whether Carla might not be right with her version after all. An airborne maneuver by the English near Arnhem in September 1944 turned into a fiasco, and thousands of British paratroopers were captured. At this time, “Der Schal” was sitting safe and reasonably comfortable in a hospital under German leadership behind enemy lines. During the last act of the liberation of the Netherlands, Colonel Dietrich was taken prisoner by the British and Dutch. Pieter visits him in his cell and makes him the same offer that he made two years ago: freedom from working as a double agent. Unlike Deventer in 1943, Dietrich accepts the immoral offer.
Both pass the German positions and free Cachenez from German custody. Pieter Deventer kills Dietrich while on the run and escapes with Cachenez on an airplane. Back in Holland, Pieter confronts the Liberated and confronts him with Carla's speculations. "The scarf" is furious and swears to kill Carla for this allegation. Cachenez still plays the fearless devil and brags to Pieter that he could easily get into Arnhem, which is still held by the Germans. He designs a specific route that Pieter wants to use to free captured British paratroopers and get them out of town. The company is a complete success. But then Pieter accuses Cachenez of having deliberately sacrificed his men in the completely unsuccessful action in order to get revenge on them for their behavior towards their beloved mother. Pieter now absolutely wants to see where the Germans are said to have shot him. "The scarf" then tears the bandages off his body. He is completely unharmed, no wounds and no scars. Cachenez tries to escape and is shot by Deventer and the British. The rescued English paratroopers return and Pieter is thrilled to see Carla among them.
Production notes
Betriebe was made mainly between the end of September and December 12, 1953, and additional recordings were made at the end of January 1954. The location was the Netherlands (exterior shots in Maastricht, among others ) and Great Britain (studio shots ). The film premiered on September 7, 1954. The German premiere took place on October 4, 1957.
The film structures are by Alfred Junge , the photographic special effects are designed by Tom Howard .
For Gable this was the last production that he produced for his long-term contract partner MGM . His contract with the Major Company ended in March 1954. At the same time, betrayal was Gables' last collaboration with his co-star Turner. Both had shot a total of four films together.
The film cost $ 1.674 million and grossed $ 4.177 million worldwide. With that, betrayal was considered a box office success despite moderate reviews (see below).
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Colonel Pieter Deventer | Clark Gable | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Carla van Oven | Lana Turner | Dagmar Altrichter |
| Cachenez | Victor Mature | Peter Mosbacher |
| Colonel Dietrich | OE Hasse | Curt Ackermann |
| General Ten Eyck | Louis Calhern | Robert Klupp |
| General Charles Larraby | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Walther Suessenguth |
| Captain Jackie Lawson | Ian Carmichael | Heinz Dragon |
| Cachenez's mother | Nora Swinburne | Tilly Lauenstein |
| General Warsleigh | Roland Culver | Konrad Wagner |
| Captain von Stanger | Anton Diffring | Kurt Waitzmann |
| Air Force Officer | Ferdy Mayne | Alexander Welbat |
Reviews
Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times September 9, 1954: "Imagine Lana Turner as a resistance spy who shows up with the freed heroes of Arnhem, then falls triumphantly into Clark Gable's arms, and you have an adequate illustration of the overall character of betrayals . (...) While this film is concerned with figuring out whether the traitor is Miss Turner or Mr. Mature, it has guided the audience through such a long and tedious amount of detail that it hasn't only frayed all possible tension, but also made patience difficult. Miss Turner and Mr. Gable had many rambling conversations; Mr. Mature drummed on his chest like Tarzan and roared out his bragging many times. (...) The beauties of the landscape of the The Netherlands were viewed to the point of being saturated.
The British Daily Sketch mocked Gable almost at the same time after the London premiere: “His love scenes with Lana Turner are like stale fizzy lemonade, and he kisses her like a hungover husband”.
The Hollywood Reporter particularly praised Freddie Young's camera work. There it also stated in September 1954: "The dark-toned close-ups of Gable (who is of Dutch descent) often look as if they were painted by Rembrandt ."
In the lexicon of the international film it says: “A young woman who is suspected of collaborating with the Nazis is given a chance to rehabilitate: She is used as an underground agent in occupied Holland. Incredible, adventurous espionage story, the dramatic finale of which coincides with the landing of Allied paratroopers near Arnhem in 1944. "
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide said: “Boring World War II melodrama with some nice on-site recordings in the Netherlands”.
Halliwell's Film Guide characterized the film as follows: “Quiet, studio-like, old-school romantic melodrama. Not exactly lively. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Betrayed in the German dubbing files
- ^ Betrayed in The New York Times
- ↑ Quoted from Clark Gable . In: Der Spiegel of September 8, 1954, accessed on March 18, 2019.
- ↑ Betrayed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 14, 2019 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin: Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 102
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 95
Web links
- Betrayed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Revealed in the Turner Classic Movie Catalog