Lisbon Story (1946 film)

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Lisbon Story
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Directed by Paul L. Stein
Screenplay by Jack Whittingham
Based onplay with music The Lisbon Story by Harry Parr Davies and Harold Purcell [1]
Produced by Louis H. Jackson
Cinematography Gerald Moss
Edited by Douglas Myers
Music by Hans May
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 20 May 1946 (1946-05-20)(UK)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Lisbon Story is a 1946 British musical thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Walter Rilla and Austin Trevor. [2] It was based on the musical The Lisbon Story by Harold Purcell and Harry Parr Davies that ran at The Hippodrome in 1943. [3] The screenplay concerns a cabaret singer and a British intelligence officer who travel to Berlin to rescue an atomic scientist being held there. [4]

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References

  1. Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   9783110951943 via Google Books.
  2. "The Lisbon Story (1946) - Paul Stein - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  3. The Lisbon Story, Guide to Musical Theatre
  4. "Lisbon Story". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2014.