Directed by Jack Conway.
Simple theme. lovedhelen'sbook 2015-11-17 ©2020 Turner Classic Movies, Inc. A WarnerMedia Company. Honorable espionage story starring French star Jean-Pierre Aumont during his brief war-time Hollywood stint. Based on the best selling thriller novel by Helen MacInnes.
Start Shopping. As silly as that is, there are a lot of exciting close calls with the Nazis that make this a decent suspenseful espionage thriller.
Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany.Set during WW2, the film casts Aumont as Free French captain Metard, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Bertrand Conlay, a prisoner of the Allies whom is suspected of being a fifth columnist.
In fact, after only one more film in Hollywood, Cross of Lorraine (1944), he returned to fight with the Free French.
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Although Anne appears happy to see Metard, whom she believes to be Corlay, she tells him that she cannot marry him because of a past infidelity. Though a number of civilians refuse to betray Matard (and are shot), Plehec's young nephew Etienne (Darryl Hickman) identifies him. As wartime spy films go this is a pretty decent one even if it is not exactly nuanced.
By the end of 1943, when it had ended - due to loss of ships and air support, the Germans had sunk 3,500 merchant ships enroute to the United Kingdom and Russia.
After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis.
Anthony Veiller, William H. Wright, Howard Emmett Rogers (Novel: Helen MacInnes) Music. As Metard is walking back to the Corlay farm, he sees Anne being attacked by a German soldier and kills him. Mon dieu!
Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. The boy takes Matard to it; Matard sends the location to his superiors. A homesick, no-nonsense, lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast, and eventually falling in love with down-and-out ex-jazz pianist. Blog Design by Kate Gabrielle.. too bad!
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Bertrand Corlay/Capt Pierre Metard Jean-Pierre Aumont. And genuinely, one of the best upper-tier B movies that I’ve seen in a while. At the castle, Elise confirms that she is a Nazi collaborator and tells Metard that the submarine base is in St. Lunaire. While the film is solid, it lacks flair and the gruesome Nazi tactics comes across more as routine than emotional. After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Nazis.
Joining him in the film are Margaret Wycherly and Susan Peters as the collaborator's wife and girlfriend and Signe Hasso (in her U.S. debut) as his mistress. After French Resistance contact Louis Basdevant is unmasked as a turncoat, Matard forces him at gunpoint to get him into a heavily guarded town. Even in Hollywood, he supported the war effort, appearing at special screenings of Assignment in Brittany, to help raise funds for the Resistance.
Sigh. Assignment in Brittany (Jack Conway, 1943) 6/10 . Drama.
In short, an MGM special the likes of which they pumped out monthly. ... See full summary », Detective Landers (Robert Douglas), of the Los Angeles Homicide Bureau, suspects murder when the body of a transient ranch hand is found in a sleazy Los Angeles hotel. Assignment in Brittany (1943) was directed by Jack Conway for MGM. Play. Among the supporting cast Margaret Wycherly shines as a plucky old woman. I thought maybe I had seen this before, but I’d have remembered Jean-Pierre Aumont’s performance or his excellent hair!
Assignment in Brittany Before Metard can secure safe passage, however, Von Pless discovers his ruse and orders his arrest. Watch for FREE . Pierre Metard Susan Peters.
Assignment in Brittany starts out with a ridiculous premise but eventually turns into a pretty good World War II spy thriller.
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Directed by Jack Conway this film based on the novel of the same name stars Jean-Pierre Aurmont, Susan Peters and Signe Hasso. 2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
He comes out of this film with his dignity intact. At the time "Assignment in Brittany" was being made, Germany's blockade of the Atlantic was in place.
This new list is long overdue. With the help of Kerenor, a priest, and other sympathetic villagers, Metard escapes from Holtz's jail and hides in the catacombs of the local church.
Sign In. Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? The following actors were announced as cast members: Blanche Yurka, Wolfgang Zilzer, Byron Nelson, George Ford, Vernon Rickard, Jack Lorenz, Alan Westcott, George Calliga, George Magrill, Max Lucke, Waclaw Rekwart, Alex Akimoff, Helen Giere, Cap Somers, Bob Ireland, John Peters, Bruce Carruthers, Florence Brown, Richard Carpenter, Michael Macey, Claude Payton, Art Belasco, John Phipps, Esther Fleischman and Lillian Nicholson. Jean-Pierre Aumont Susan Peters Margaret Wycherly Signe Hasso Richard Whorf George Coulouris John Emery Darryl Hickman Sarah Padden Adia Kuznetzoff Reginald Owen Miles Mander Alan Napier Odette Myrtil Juanita Quigley William Edmunds George Brest George Travell Paul Leyssac Lucien Prival Rex Williams Lionel Royce, Anthony Veiller Helen MacInnes William H. Wright Howard Emmett Rogers, 96 mins After British speed boats bomb the hidden base, Metard reunites with Anne on board an England-bound ship and joins her in singing "Les Marsielles.". But, most of the U-boat losses were from Allied aircraft and convoy escort ships. Metard, "It's not I she loves... it's your son." Aumont was one of the few French actors in the film, which filled the South of France with Englishmen, Americans and even a Swiss miss. Just give me my moment of glee, okay? Assignment in Brittany Jack Conway (1943) 96min.
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Rotten Tomatoes™ % % Watch for FREE. TMDb Screenwriter. Monsieur, don't make her suffer any more.". My only problem with it is that the premise is so outlandishly unbelievable it's takes some effort to invest in the story. When Matard refuses to tell Captain Hans Holz (George Coulouris) the location of the wireless, he is tortured for days.
In a world that seems increasingly out of control, with rampant newly fortified racism in my country (USA) and global fascism on the rise (and that really is just the tip of a long list of terrible troubles today), it just feels right to watch some Nazis get wiped out. That said,
How... Photo source: @OneDarkAlly on Instagram Fright Favorites 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond by David J. Skal TCM and Running... Blog content Raquel Stecher, Out of the Past (2007-2019). Corlay implores Metard to "go easy" on Anne, and he agrees. Film data from TMDb.
Jack Conway. Metard then reunites with Corlay's fiancée, Anne Pinot. His duty is to pinpoint the hidden German U-boat base so that the Allies can attack and destroy it. I have the book but have been unable to find the movie to purchase. "[3], https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/the-best-spy-novels-of-all-time/assignment-in-brittany-by-helen-macinnes-1942/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assignment_in_Brittany&oldid=958771760, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 25 May 2020, at 17:01. I have the book but have been unable to find the movie to purchase. The working title of this film was Fire in the Night.
The French underground contributed to the Allied efforts against Germany in WW II.