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Yellow Canary is a British film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Wilcox released in USA on 13 april 1944 with Anna Neagle

Yellow Canary (1943)

Yellow Canary
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Released in USA 13 april 1944
Length 1h35
Directed by
Genres Drama,    War,    Thriller,    Spy
Rating63% 3.188723.188723.188723.188723.18872

Yellow Canary is a 1943 British drama film well written and acted, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Richard Greene and Albert Lieven. Neagle plays a British Nazi sympathizer who travels to Halifax, Canada, trailed by spies from both sides during the Second World War. Neagle and director/producer Wilcox had collaborated on a number of previous film projects previously.

Synopsis

This World War II movie brilliantly opens with Sally Maitland (Anna Neagle) appearing to signal Nazi planes to bomb England after murdering an innocent citizen in his home. The next morning Sally boards a ship bound from Britain for Canada crossing an Atlantic with German predators afoul. Two of the passengers, Jim Garrick (Richard Greene) and Polish officer Jan Orlock (Albert Lieven), seek her acquaintance despite her long-time, and well-known admiration for Nazi Germany. It soon becomes common knowledge that Jim is in British intelligence. Sally rebuffs his advances, but welcomes Jan's attention. Much later in the film to keep us guessing, we learn that Sally is in fact a deep cover British agent on a secret mission shadowing her quarry Jan. She chases Jan across the globe thwarting sabotage against the allies. Unbeknownst to Sally, Jim is assigned to help and protect her on the same mission.

Actors

Anna Neagle

(Sally Maitland)Richard Greene

(Lieutenant Commander Jim Garrick)Albert Lieven

(Jan Orlock)Lucie Mannheim

(Madame Orlock)Nova Pilbeam

(Betty Maitland)
And :
Franklin Dyall
Margaret Rutherford
Aubrey Mallalieu
Valentine Dyall
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