Squadron Leader X (1943)
1h 39m
Running Time
March 1, 1943Release Date
Plot.
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 ?
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Cast & Crew.
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
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 1, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
spy
pilot
lost film
Wiki.
Squadron Leader X is a 1943 British World War II spy drama directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger.