Lilli Marlene

Lilli Marlene

74 mins | Drama | Dec. 8, 1950

Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.

Lilli Marlene

74 mins | Drama | Dec. 8, 1950

Lilli Marlene
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
IMDb rating 5.0
Producers William Gell Productions, Monarch Productions Limited
Original title Lilli Marlene
Directors Clive Midwinter, Arthur Crabtree
Writers Leslie Wood

Cast

Lisa Daniely

as Lilli Marlene

Hugh McDermott

as Steve

Richard Murdoch

as Flight Lieutenant Murdoch / Capt. Wimpole

Leslie Dwyer

as Berry

Estelle Brody

as Estelle

Cecil Brock

as O'Riley

John Blythe

as Holt

Stanley Baker

as Evans

Ben Williams

as Brownie

Russell Hunter

as Scottie

Marcel Poncin

as Lestoque

Judith Warden

as Auntie

Lawrence O'Madden

as Col. Wharton

Stuart Lindsell

as Major Phillips

Olaf Olsen

as Nazi Officer

Irene Prador

as Nurse Schmidt

Aud Johansen

as Nurse Melke

Carl Jaffe

as Propaganda Chief

Philo Hauser

as Fratzell

Richard Marner

as SS Colonel

Peter Swanwick

as Chief Interrogator

Walter Gotell

as Director of Propaganda

Arthur Lawrence

as Lieber

Rufus Cruikshank

as Sgt. Bull

Barbara Cummings

as Shirley

Neil Tuson

as Producer

Conrad Phillips

as Security Officer

Kenneth Cleveland

as Security Officer

Michael Ward

as Wintertree