Orders to Kill

1958
12
1h 52m

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American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.

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7.1/10

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Won 3 BAFTA Awards
- 3 wins & 4 nominations total

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A memorable film about wartime morality.

This is a quietly gripping movie about a man ordered to kill a traitor in wartime France. The protagonist bonds with his quarry and his family and agonizes over following his orders to kill. To find out whether he kills the man and whether he is guilty or innocent you'll need to see this.

triviah
Dec 4, 2000
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Trivia
Eddie Albert's part in this film (as a US Air Force major) is one of several military roles he played in his earlier career. These were satirized in the TV series 'Green Acres', when it is explained that Oliver, his character, served as US pilot in WWII and was shot down over Hungary, where he was rescued by his future wife Lisa.

Goofs
The psychiatrist eye glass frames have no lenses in them.

Quotes
Léonie: How long have you been here?
Gene Summers: A week tomorrow.
Léonie: You are an optimist. If you go on behaving like this, there won't be any tomorrow. You won't just be snivelling to me, you'll be snivelling to the Gestapo. Things must be very bad when they send us a child to do a man's job. Did they tell you that your mission here was secret?
Gene Summers: Yes.
Léonie: Then why have you broken every rule of security by blabbing to me?