Desperate Moment
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Desperate Moment is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Compton Bennett
Compton Bennett
Herbert William "Bob" Compton Bennett , better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain...

 and starring Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde
Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death in Venice...

, Mai Zetterling
Mai Zetterling
-Early life:Zetterling was born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actress by the age of seventeen at Dramaten, the Swedish national theater, and appeared in war-era film starting in her teens.-Career:...

 and Philip Friend
Philip Friend
Philip Wyndham Friend was a British film and television actor.-Filmography:* Inquest * The Midas Touch * Pimpernel Smith * The Day Will Dawn * In Which We Serve...

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Plot

A Dutchman wrongly accused of a crime goes on the run through Germany in search of the only witness who can clear him.

Cast

  • Dirk Bogarde
    Dirk Bogarde
    Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death in Venice...

     - Simon Van Halder
  • Mai Zetterling
    Mai Zetterling
    -Early life:Zetterling was born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actress by the age of seventeen at Dramaten, the Swedish national theater, and appeared in war-era film starting in her teens.-Career:...

     - Anna DeBurg
  • Philip Friend
    Philip Friend
    Philip Wyndham Friend was a British film and television actor.-Filmography:* Inquest * The Midas Touch * Pimpernel Smith * The Day Will Dawn * In Which We Serve...

     - Captain Bob Sawyer
  • Albert Lieven
    Albert Lieven
    Albert Lieven was a German actor. He was born Albert Fritz Liévin in Hohenstein, East Prussia. He died in London, England. He was married four times, including to the actresses Susan Shaw and Valerie White....

     - Paul Ravitch
  • Fritz Wendhausen - Warder Goeter
  • Carl Jaffe
    Carl Jaffe
    Carl Jaffe was a German Jewish actor. Jaffe trained on the stage in his native Hamburg, Kassel and Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin, where his career took off....

     - Becker
  • Gerard Heinz
    Gerard Heinz
    Gerard Heinz , born Gerhard Hinze, was an actor. He later moved to England, where he changed his name to Gerard Heinz. He appeared in almost 60 movies , and a number of stage productions...

     - German Prison Doctor
  • André Mikhelson - Polizei Inspector
  • Harold Ayer - Captain Trevor Wood
  • Walter Gotell
    Walter Gotell
    Walter Gotell was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the James Bond film series.Gotell was born in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power...

     - Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
  • Friedrich Joloff - Valentin Vladek
  • Simone Silva
    Simone Silva
    Simone Silva was an Egyptian-born French film actress who appeared in a handful of British B-movies during the 1950s. Silva, who was once quoted as saying she would "do anything" to get in the newspapers, was known however less for her acting than for her voluptuous figure and shameless...

     - Mink, Valentin's girl
  • Ferdy Mayne
    Ferdy Mayne
    -Early life:He was born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel, in Mainz, Germany. His German father was the Judge of Mayence, and his half-English mother gave singing lessons. Because his family was Jewish, he was sent to England to protect him from the Nazis, and he stayed with his aunt, the photographer...

     - Detective Laurence
  • Walter Rilla
    Walter Rilla
    Walter Rilla was a German film actor. He appeared in over 130 films between 1922 and 1977. He was born in Neunkirchen, Germany and died in Rosenheim, Germany.-Selected filmography:...

     - Colonel Bertrand, Dutch consulate
  • Antonio Gallardo
    Antonio Gallardo
    Antonio Gallardo Palacios is a Mexican footballer who plays as a Midfielder for Club Deportivo Guadalajara of Mexico.-Biography:...

    - Spanish Dancer
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