Spy in the Sky!

1958 film
  • Steve Brodie
  • Andrea Domburg
  • George Coulouris
CinematographyWalter J. HarveyEdited byLien d' Oliveyra
Loet RoozekransMusic byHugo de Groot
Production
company
W. Lee Wilder Productions
Distributed by
Release date
  • 20 July 1958 (1958-07-20)
Running time
75 minutesCountries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish

Spy in the Sky! is a 1958 American-British spy thriller film directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring Steve Brodie, Andrea Domburg and George Coulouris.[1]

The film is based on the 1954 novel Counterspy Express by Albert Sidney Fleischman.[2] It was shot at the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam and on location in Vienna.

Plot

A German scientist who knows the secrets of the Sputnik rocket programme goes on the run from the Soviets.

Cast

  • Steve Brodie as Vic Cabot
  • Sandra Francis as Eve Brandisi
  • Andrea Domburg as Alexandrine Duvivier
  • George Coulouris as Col. Benedict
  • Bob De Lange as Sidney Jardine
  • Hans Tiemeijer as Dr. Fritz Keller, alias Hans Krauss
  • Herbert Curiel as Pepi Vidor
  • Dity Oorthuis as Fritzi
  • Albert E. Gollin as Martin, consul's representative
  • Leon Dorian as Agent Max Maxwell
  • Roland Wagter as Soldier
  • Monica Witkowna as Gypsy Singer
  • Harold Horsten as Pawnbroker

References

  1. ^ American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations p.204
  2. ^ Goble p.160

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Pomerance, Murray (ed.) American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
  • Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. McFarland, 2017.

External links

  • Spy in the Sky! at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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