Secret Journey (1939 film)

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Secret Journey
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Directed by John Baxter
Written by Michael Hogan
Produced by John Corfield
Starring
Cinematography James Wilson
Music by Kennedy Russell
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation
Release date
  • 2 October 1939 (1939-10-02)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Secret Journey is a 1939 British thriller film directed by John Baxter and starring Basil Radford, Silvia St. Claire and Thorley Walters. [1] The film was made at M.P. Studios, Elstree, by British National Films as a supporting feature. [2] It is a remake of the 1936 French film Wolves Between Them , itself based on a novel by Charles Robert-Dumas. It was released in the United States in 1940 under the alternative title Among Human Wolves.

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Synopsis

The screenplay concerns a British agent who travels to Berlin to recover a top-secret invention that has been stolen by German intelligence.

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References

  1. BFI.org
  2. Wood p.101

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