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      Orders to Kill

      1958 1h 33m Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 80% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Gene Summers (Paul Massie) is an American Air Force pilot recruited to take part in a secret government mission. He is tasked with killing Marcel Lafitte (Leslie French), a lawyer working with the French Resistance, and a suspected double agent. After Summers parachutes into France, he meets his Resistance contact, Leonie (Irene Worth), and she provides him with information about Lafitte. But, after learning more about his target, Summers has second thoughts about his mission. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member This is worth watching. An unusual story of an undercover SOE agent questioning the morality of his mission. A war film about doubt and fear rather than guts and glory. Apparently it was well received on its release and won 3 BAFTAs but has since sunk into obscurity Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member A fascinating study in the ultimate moral dilemma - to take a life or not. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member good thriller from the year i was born! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Penelope Houston Sight & Sound The director, Anthony Asquith, and the writer, Paul Dehn, have allowed the film to end on equivocation rather than statement... But Orders to Kill has a theme and a point, is not simply using the war as background. Mar 30, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Gene Summers (Paul Massie) is an American Air Force pilot recruited to take part in a secret government mission. He is tasked with killing Marcel Lafitte (Leslie French), a lawyer working with the French Resistance, and a suspected double agent. After Summers parachutes into France, he meets his Resistance contact, Leonie (Irene Worth), and she provides him with information about Lafitte. But, after learning more about his target, Summers has second thoughts about his mission.
      Director
      Anthony Asquith
      Screenwriter
      Paul Dehn, George St. George
      Production Co
      Lynx Films, British Lion
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 33m