Squadron Leader X

Squadron Leader X

99 mins | Drama, War | March 1, 1943

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?

Squadron Leader X

99 mins | Drama, War | March 1, 1943

Squadron Leader X
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
Producers Victor Hanbury Productions, RKO Radio British Productions
Original title Squadron Leader X
Directors Lance Comfort
Writers Wolfgang Wilhelm, Emeric Pressburger, Miles Malleson

Cast

Eric Portman

as Erich Kohler

Ann Dvorak

as Barbara Lucas

Walter Fitzgerald

as Inspector Milne

Martin Miller

as Mr. Krohn

Beatrice Varley

as Mrs. Krohn

Henry Oscar

as Dr. Schultz

Barry Jones

as Bruce Fenwick

David Peel

as Michael Bertholt

Charles Victor

as Marks

Mary Merrall

as Miss Thorndike

Carl Jaffe

as Luftwaffe Colonel

Marjorie Rhodes

as Mrs. Agnew

Friedrich Richter

as Inspector Siegel

Aubrey Mallalieu

as Pierre