Background To Danger (1943) - (Movie Clip) This Chewing The Gum

Background to Danger - (Original Trailer)

George Raft falls headlong into espionage in wartime Turkey in Raoul Walsh's Background To Danger (1943).

Background To Danger (1943) -- (Movie Clip) An American Word?

Nicolai (Peter Lorre), with his more fetching sister Tamara (Brenda Marshall), first secretly dispatches Ivor (Daniel Ocko), then reveals to American Joe (George Raft) why he rescued him from a crew of bogus Turkish cops, in Background To Danger, 1943, from an Eric Ambler novel.

Background To Danger (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Where Did That Man Go?

Chivalrous American Joe (George Raft) encounters trouble returning the papers he held for Ana (Osa Massen) to her Ankara hotel, whereupon Peter Lorre and Brenda Marshall make their first, not explained, appearances, director Raoul Walsh using very little dialogue, in Background To Danger, 1943.

Background To Danger (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Your Trouble And Discomfort

Goon Mailer (Kurt Katch) delivers American Joe (George Raft), a salesman who seems drawn to international intrigue, to Robinson (Sydney Greenstreet), whom we know to be a Nazi agent though he is posing here as a Turkish police official, for a talk about secret papers, in Raoul Walsh's Background To Danger, 1943.