Diplomatic Courier

Diplomatic Courier
Film poster
Directed by	Henry Hathaway
Starring	Tyrone Power Patricia Neal
Release dates	June 13, 1952
Running time	97 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.4 million (US rentals)^[1]

For other uses, see Diplomatic courier.

For the magazine, see The Diplomatic Courier.

Diplomatic Courier is a 1952 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars Tyrone Power and Patricia Neal.^[2]

Plot

Mike Kells is assigned by the State Department to fly to Salzburg and meet his old friend Sam Carew, who will pass a top-secret document to him. A passenger on the plane, Joan Ross, takes a liking to Mike and expresses a desire to see him again.

Sam ignores him because he is apparently being tailed by two men. Mike boards the same train and sits near a woman Sam seems to know. In a tunnel, Mike is shocked to see the two men throw Carew's body off the train.

Col. Cagle and Sgt. Guelvada of the US Army tersely interrogate Mike as to what went wrong. They believe the woman's involved and order him to travel to Trieste to find her. Guelvada goes along.

She is identified as Janine Betki, a singer and a possible Russian agent. Mike goes to a club where she once performed. He runs into Joan there instead. After a strange man slips Mike some information, the man and Mike are both nearly run down by a car.

Janine is located and explains to Mike that she not only worked with Carew but also loved him. Still, the colonel insists Janine is a double agent. Joan then contacts Mike and claims a sniper tried to kill her. After he leaves, it is Joan who is revealed to be the Russian agent.

Mike deduces that Carew hid microfilm in a wristwatch. He retrieves it, only to have Joan try to take it from him at gunpoint. In the end, Mike prevails and then arranges for the document and also Janine to get safe passage to America.

Cast

Tyrone Power as Mike Kells
Patricia Neal as Joan Ross
Helene Stanley as Airline Stewardess
Hildegard Knef as Janine Betki
Stephen McNally as Col. Mark Cagle
Karl Malden as Sgt. Ernie Guelvada

References

↑ 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953
↑ http://allmovie.com/work/diplomatic-courrier-13855

External links

Diplomatic Courier at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Henry Hathaway

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Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
The Thundering Herd (1933)
Under the Tonto Rim (1933)
Sunset Pass (1933)
Man of the Forest (1933)
To the Last Man (1933)
Come on Marines! (1934)
The Witching Hour (1934)
The Last Round-Up (1934)
Now and Forever (1934)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
I Loved a Soldier (1936)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
Go West, Young Man (1936)
Souls at Sea (1937)
Spawn of the North (1938)
The Real Glory (1939)
Johnny Apollo (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
Sundown (1941)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
China Girl (1942)
Home in Indiana (1944)
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
Nob Hill (1945)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
The Dark Corner (1946)
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
The Black Rose (1950)
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
Rawhide (1951)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
Niagara (1953)
White Witch Doctor (1953)
Prince Valiant (1954)
Garden of Evil (1954)
The Racers (1955)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Legend of the Lost (1957)
From Hell to Texas (1958)
Woman Obsessed (1959)
Seven Thieves (1960)
North to Alaska (1960)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Circus World (1964)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Nevada Smith (1966)
The Last Safari (1967)
5 Card Stud (1968)
True Grit (1969)
Raid on Rommel (1971)
Shoot Out (1971)
Hangup (1974)

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