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...Counterfeit Traitor. An expert spy thriller about an Allied agent in Sweden during World...
...Counterfeit Traitor. Incessantly exciting story of an Allied agent in Sweden during World...
...Counterfeit Traitor. Incessantly exciting story of an Allied agent in Sweden during World...
...Counterfeit Traitor (Paramount). Oil, the Swedes remarked sadly in the fall of 1942, is thicker than blood. They were speaking of Eric Erickson, an American who came to Sweden in the '20s, did well in the oil business, took out Swedish citizenship. Then came the war. Erickson, like most neutrals, continued to do business with the Germans, but when he was put on the Allied blacklist his reaction was odious. He publicly insulted the country of his birth, openly frequented the German legation in Stockholm, made fulsome speeches praising the Führer...
...cover for his secret activities as an Allied agent. Those activities, depicted with approximate accuracy in a novel by Alexander Klein, have now been cleverly rejiggered to produce an expert and expensive ($4,500,000) spy thriller. Written and directed by George (The Bridges at Toko-ri) Seaton, Traitor describes how Erickson (William Holden) was shanghaied into espionage by the Allies, how he made "business trips" to Germany and reported what he saw and heard, how he came to hate the Nazis and to like his work, how he fell in love with a companion in espionage (Lilli Palmer...