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Lilli Marlene (1950)
Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Overview
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle’s café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she’s joined the enemy. They couldn’t be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Length 74 minutes
Actors
Lisa Daniely | Hugh McDermott | Richard Murdoch | Leslie Dwyer | Estelle Brody | Cecil Brock | John Blythe | Stanley Baker | Ben Williams | Russell Hunter | Marcel Poncin | Judith Warden | Lawrence O'Madden | Stuart Lindsell | Olaf Olsen | Irene Prador | Aud Johansen | Carl Jaffe | Philo Hauser | Richard Marner | Peter Swanwick | Walter Gotell | Arthur Lawrence | Rufus Cruikshank | Barbara Cummings | Neil Tuson | Conrad Phillips | Kenneth Cleveland | Michael Ward