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State Secret. A British-made thriller about an American (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) running for his life in a convincingly pictured police state (TIME, Oct. 9).
State Secret. A British-made thriller about an American (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) running for his life in a convincingly pictured police state (TIME, Oct. 9).
The story begins by giving its hero, U.S. Surgeon Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 5 minutes to live. At a mountain outpost, the government's apologetic hatchetman (Jack Hawkins), a charming, articulate villain, tells Fairbanks he will die in "a shooting accident." While he waits, Fairbanks and Writer-Director Gilliat'...
In the flashback, Fairbanks visits Vosnia to pick up a medal for a new operating technique and to demonstrate the surgery. He discovers in mid-operation that, through a switch in patients, he is working on the innards of General Niva, the country's dictator. The operation goes well...
The general dies. Fairbanks gets loose with his unwelcome state secret, a bewildered stranger in a hostile country. His frantic, ever-narrowing efforts to get out of Vosnia alive, pitted against all the frightening resources of the state, make up the bulk of an exciting movie.They involve varied backgrounds (a...