Spy Hunt
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Directed by | George Sherman |
Screenplay by | George Zuckerman Leonard Lee |
Based on | Panther's MoonbyVictor Canning |
Produced by | Ralph Dietrich |
Starring | Howard Duff Märta Torén |
Cinematography | Irving Glassberg |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Spy Hunt,also known asPanther's Moon,is a 1950 Americanespionage film noir,based on the novelPanther's MoonbyVictor Canning,directed byGeorge Sherman,and starringHoward DuffandMärta Torén.It was produced byUniversal-International Pictures.
Plot
[edit]In Milan, Catherine Uilven, an agent for the legitimate democratic government of an unnamed Central European country, conceals top secret microfilm in the collar of one of two circus panthers that are being transported by train to be taken to America. Steve Quain, an American stranded in Europe without money, has taken the job of accompanying the panthers so he can get back to America. Unaware of the microfilm, but attracted to Uilven whom he meets briefly when she poses as a reporter, he is in the final car of the freight train with the panthers when saboteurs, in the pay of the usurping government, detach it from the train in Switzerland. The car is derailed and crashes, injuring Quain and freeing the panthers.
Quain awakens from concussion in a small mountain hotel run by a non-practicing doctor, Dr Stahl. News quickly spreads about the panthers, and several shady characters descend on the hotel, including Uilven, a man claiming to be a game hunter, a man claiming to be an artist, and a man claiming to be a reporter, as well as troops from the Swiss army. When Quain disturbs one of the men threatening Uilven, he knocks the man out, and he and Uilven team up. One of the troops is killed by a panther. One of the panthers is killed, but it is not the one with the microfilm. The hotel's guests all venture out at night, hunting for the remaining panther.
Cast
[edit]- Howard Duffas Steve Quain
- Märta Torénas Catherine Uilven
- Philip Friendas Chris Denson
- Robert Douglasas Paradou
- Philip Dornas Paul Kopel
- Walter Slezakas Doctor Stahl
- Kurt Kreugeras Captain Heimer
- Aram Katcher as Georg
See also
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- 1950 films
- Film noir
- American crime drama films
- American spy thriller films
- 1950 drama films
- American black-and-white films
- Films about hunters
- Films about cats
- Films set in Switzerland
- Films set in the Alps
- Films based on British novels
- 1950s English-language films
- Films directed by George Sherman
- 1950s American films
- 1950s crime drama film stubs
- 1950s American film stubs