Spy in the Sky! | |
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Directed by | W. Lee Wilder |
Written by | Myles Wilder |
Based on | Counterspy Express by Albert Sidney Fleischman |
Produced by | W. Lee Wilder |
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Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
Edited by | Lien d' Oliveyra Loet Roozekrans |
Music by | Hugo de Groot |
Production company | W. Lee Wilder Productions |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
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Language | English |
Spy in the Sky! is a 1958 American-British spy thriller film directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring Steve Brodie, Andrea Domburg and George Coulouris. [1] [2]
The film is based on the 1954 novel Counterspy Express by Albert Sidney Fleischman. [3] It was shot at the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam and on location in Vienna.
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