THE SECRET WAYS (1961) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Phil Karlson
Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Charles Regnier,
Heinz Moog, Oskar Wegrostek, Stefan Schnabel
Richard Widmark plays a guy who's hanging around Zurich dodging a $2,000 hotel bill and a $40,000 gambling debt, when he's recruited to do a little cloak-and-dagger work behind the Iron Curtain. A good, escapist spy thriller, shot on location in noirish black and white, with Vienna filling in for Budapest. Widmark produced. Mrs. Widmark (Jean Hazlewood) wrote the screenplay from a novel by Alistair MacLean.The composer was a young John Williams.
