Spy in the Sky!
Cast & Crew
W. Lee Wilder
Steve Brodie
Sandra Francis
Andrea Domburg
George Coulouris
Bob De Lange
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
After the launch of a Russian Sputnik space satellite, international espionage experts discover that it is emitting intermittent beep signals they are unable to decode. Meanwhile, Dr. Fritz Keller, a captured German scientist the Russians have forced to work on their satellite program, escapes to Vienna carrying a guitar case and is followed by spy Pepi Vidor. In Vienna, after Keller pawns the guitar case and mails the redemption ticket to the U.S. consulate, he is abducted at gunpoint by Pepi, who intends to "sell" Keller to the highest bidder. Later, U.S. agent Victor Cabot arrives in Vienna and, on a deserted street corner, meets fellow agent Maxwell who assigns him to find Keller and provides a photograph of the missing scientist. Maxwell suggests that Cabot talk with Pepi, whom Maxwell knows as they are both interested in the same woman, nightclub singer Eva Brindisi. Suddenly, a car races down the dark street, shots ring out and Maxwell is killed. Cabot then goes to Eva's nightclub and discovers that it is her night off. There, the club's owner, a suspicious Col. Benedict, gives him the address of her apartment. After Cabot informs Eva of Maxwell's death, they see Benedict and a thug waiting in the street below and escape out the back door. Cabot takes Eva to his hotel, where she tells him that Pepi can usually be found at a casino in a nearby town. The next morning, Cabot is approached by Sidney Jardine, who, unaware that Cabot works for the U.S. government, suggests that he can deliver Keller for a price. Cabot rejects his offer then returns to his hotel where Martin, who works at the U.S. consulate, hands Cabot the pawn ticket, then informs him that the article has already been reclaimed without the use of the ticket. After Cabot discovers that Benedict was the claimant, he goes to the club, finds the guitar case in Benedict's office and sends it to the consulate. When Cabot and Eva visit the casino in search of Pepi, they are told that he is not there, but back at their hotel, Pepi phones them from the lobby, and after promising to deliver Keller, arranges a rendezvous near the farmhouse where he is holding the scientist. As the conversation ends, Benedict enters the lobby and sees Pepi. At the rendezvous point, Cabot and Eva discover Pepi, dead in his car. Farther down the road, they come upon Benedict's car and see one of his men repairing a flat tire. Cabot leaves Eva, slugs the man, then after concealing his face, takes the man's place in the back seat of the car, where he finds himself seated beside Duvivier, Benedict's enigmatic female associate. When they arrive at a deserted house, Cabot, Duvivier and the car's driver enter. After Cabot knocks out the driver, Duvivier tells Cabot that, although she appears to be working for Benedict, she is actually a fellow agent, working for the British. Cabot and Duvivier then trick Benedict into leaving the car and drive to Pepi's house, where they tell his girl friend, Fritzi, that he has been killed. Just then, Keller hangs himself in the attic and afterward, Cabot finds a piece of paper bearing some numbers in the dead man's shoe. Cabot and Eva then return to Vienna by train. During the journey, Jardine joins them, reveals that Eva is working with him and, at gunpoint, demands that Cabot tell him where Keller can be found. Cabot tricks them and, when the train arrives in Vienna, they are arrested by the police. After Duvivier meets Cabot at the station, they drive off in Benedict's car only to discover that he has been hiding in the back seat. Holding them at gunpoint, Benedict orders them to drive to his office, where he demands that Cabot hand Keller over. After overpowering Benedict, Cabot heads for the consulate where, using the numbers found in Keller's shoe, he realizes that one of the guitar strings is actually a wire recording of Keller's voice detailing the codes. As the decoding process begins, Cabot thanks Duvivier for her help.
Director
W. Lee Wilder
Cast
Steve Brodie
Sandra Francis
Andrea Domburg
George Coulouris
Bob De Lange
Hans Tiemeyer
Herbert Curiel
Dity Oorthuis
Albert E. Gollin
Leon Dorian
Roland Wagter Jr.
Monica Witkowna
Harold Horsten
R. Borello
H. J. Hagemeyer
Antoine Zoet
Johan Schmitz
W. R. Melchers
Rob. Milton
Robert H. Macdowell
E. F. Beavis
Alex Zweers
J. J. Keers
Crew
Lien D'oliveyra
Hugo De Groot
Ann Grishman
Jim Harvey
Henk Haselaar
Max Heymans
Wim Huender
Harold Kraus
Fa. Michels
Loet Roozekrans
Bobby Rosenboom
The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Nico Van Baarle
Piet Van Moock
Jos Van Weeren
Myles Wilder
W. Lee Wilder
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Trade paper reviews and an Allied Artists production sheet list the film's editor as Lien d'Oliveyra, although only Loet Roozekrans is credited onscreen. According to information in the file on the film in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library, producer W. Lee Wilder wrote to the PCA on November 19, 1957, and stated that he was making the film at Cinetone Studios, Amsterdam. In March 1958, the PCA's certificate was issued to Wilder's company, Domino Pictures Corp.
