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Promotional movie poster for the film |
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| Directed by | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| Written by | Ronald Millar George Froeschel |
| Starring | Clark Gable Lana Turner Victor Mature |
| Music by | Walter Goehr Bronislau Kaper |
| Cinematography | Freddie Young |
| Editing by | John D. Dunning Raymond Poulton |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | September 7, 1954 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Betrayed is a 1954 war drama film made by MGM. It was directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, from a screenplay by Ronald Millar and George Froeschel. The music score was by Walter Goehr and Bronislau Kaper, the cinematography by Freddie Young.
The film stars Lana Turner, Victor Mature and Clark Gable with Louis Calhern, O. E. Hasse, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ian Carmichael, Niall MacGinnis and Theodore Bikel.
Betrayed was Gable's last film for MGM. It was also spoofed in the film Top Secret!.[1]
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Betrayed is an espionage thriller set in the Dutch resistance movement during World War II.
Dutch intelligence agent Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) is ordered to keep his eyes on suspected quisling Fran Seelers (Lana Turner). Both Deventer and Seelers join the Dutch underground, making contact with a flamboyant resistance leader known as "The Scarf" (Victor Mature).
As 'Carla Van Oven', Seelers' assignment is to use her feminine charms to gain the confidence of admiring Nazi officers. Within the next few weeks, several underground operatives are captured and shot, and it begins to look as though Deventer's suspicions concerning Seelers are correct. However, the real collaborator is eventually unmasked as being "The Scarf" himself.
In a 1954 New York Times review, critic Bosley Crowther wrote "By the time this picture gets around to figuring out whether the betrayer is Miss Turner or Mr. Mature, it has taken the audience through such a lengthy and tedious amount of detail that it has not only frayed all possible tension but it has aggravated patience as well. Miss Turner and Mr. Gable have had many long-winded talks; Mr. Mature has thumped his chest like Tarzan and bellowed his boasts a score of times. An excess of espionage maneuvering has been laid out on the screen. The beauties of the countryside of the Netherlands have been looked at until they pall."[1]
Betrayed was released on DVD and digital download on March 23, 2009 as part of the Warner Archive.[2]