The Secret Ways
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Phil Karlson
Richard Widmark
Sonja Ziemann
Charles Regnier
Walter Rilla
Senta Berger
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
American adventurer Michael Reynolds is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, Professor Jansci, out of Communist-ruled Hungary. Reynolds goes to Vienna to see the professor's daughter, Julia, and he persuades her to accompany him to Budapest. Once there, Reynolds is kidnaped by freedom fighters who take him to the professor's secret headquarters. Meanwhile, one of Jansci's trusted aides is captured by the Hungarian Secret Police and forced to reveal the professor's hiding place. Reynolds, Julia, and Jansci are quickly rounded up and taken to Szarhaza Prison, where they are tortured by the sadistic Colonel Hidas. They are rescued by a resistance fighter known as The Count, who tricks the Communists into placing the prisoners in his custody. At the last moment the ruse is discovered, and The Count is killed as the other three race to the airport where a chartered plane is waiting. Hidas pursues them but is killed in an accident on the runway. Safe at last, Reynolds, Julia, and the professor leave Hungary.
Director
Phil Karlson
Cast
Richard Widmark
Sonja Ziemann
Charles Regnier
Walter Rilla
Senta Berger
Howard Vernon
Heinz Moog
Hubert Von Meyerinck
Oskar Wegrostek
Stefan Schnabel
Elisabeth Neumann-viertel
Helmut Janatsch
John Horsley
Walter Wilz
Raoul Retzer
Georg Kovary
Adi Berber
Jochen Brockmann
Brigitte Brunmuller
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Rudolf Rosner
Crew
Peter Allwork
Leo Bei
Georg Von Block
André Farsch
Hertha Friedl
Joseph Gershenson
Max Greene
Jean Hazlewood
Euan Lloyd
Herbert E. Mendelson
Rudolf Ohlschmidt
Margarete Pitter
Isabella Schlichting
Werner Schlichting
Kurt Schwarz
Tibor Simanyi
Bob Simmons
Aaron Stell
Eric Von Stroheim Jr.
Richard Widmark
Johnny Williams
Film Details
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Notes
Filmed in Europe, principally Vienna and Zurich.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring April 1961
Released in United States Spring April 1961
