Night People (1954)

Night People (1954) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
89 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1954 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Nunnally Johnson

Written By:
Nunnally Johnson
Jed Harris

Actors:
Gregory Peck ..... Col. Steve Van Dyke
Broderick Crawford ..... Charles Leatherby
Anita Björk ..... 'Hoffy' Hoffmeir aka Stamm
Rita Gam ..... Ricky Cates
Walter Abel ..... Maj. R.A. Foster, MD
Buddy Ebsen ..... Sgt. Eddie McColloch
Max Showalter ..... Frederick S. Hobart
Jill Esmond ..... Frau Schindler aka Rachel Cameron
Peter van Eyck ..... Sergei 'Petey' Petrochine
Marianne Koch ..... Kathy Gerhardt
Ted Avery ..... Cpl. John 'Johnny' Leatherby
Hugh McDermott ..... Maj. Burns
Paul Carpenter ..... Eddie Whitby
John Horsley ..... Lt. Col. Stanways
Lionel Murton ..... Norman Lakeland

Synopsis:

You've never SEEN Gregory Peck until you've seen him in CINEMASCOPE. So read the publicity hype for 20th Century-Fox's Night People. Actually, Peck is his usual solid, stoic self as Col. Van Dyke, a CIA officer stationed in West Berlin. When an American soldier is kidnapped by the Soviets in the Eastern sector, Van Dyke is verbally assaulted by the soldier's influential industrialist father Leatherby (Broderick Crawford), who demands that something be done immediately. The Colonel realizes that it's not as simple as that: in return for the soldier, he is expected to turn over an elderly couple, both former anti-Nazi activists, to the East Germans, who will probably execute the couple. Leatherby backs off a bit when he meets the couple, then agrees to let Van Dyke handle the crisis in the most diplomatic manner possible. Things come to a head when the Colonel discovers that one of his trusted aides (Anita Bjork) is in league with the Soviets.

Post WWII yarn about a young GI abducted by the Soviets in West Berlin and hauled off to the East. His recovery gets complicated as Colonel Steve Van Dyke (Peck) tries to sort out the usefulness of informants, spies, bureaucrats, and the abductee's influential father (Crawford)!

The story is set in Berlin during the years following World War II. Peck plays a counter-intelligence officer of the United States Army. At the time this movie was made, Berlin was a divided city but not yet isolated by the Berlin Wall.

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