Betrayed (1954 film)
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41% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama, History, Romance Running time 1h 48m Language English | 6/10 IMDb Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 7, 1954 (1954-09-07) Cast (Col. Pieter Deventer), (Carla Van Oven), ('The Scarf'), (Gen. Ten Eyck), O.E. Hasse (Col. Helmuth Dietrich), (Gen. Charles Larraby (as Wilfrid Hyde White))Similar movies Fury , Captain America: The First Avenger , Terminator Salvation , The Grand Budapest Hotel , The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , Kung Fury Tagline M-G-M filmed the mystery of the year in Holland! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lana turner sings not johnny come home it s diana coupland betrayed 1954
When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf" (Victor Mature). As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.
Contents
- Lana turner sings not johnny come home it s diana coupland betrayed 1954
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Release
- Critical reception
- Similar Movies
- Home media
- References
Betrayed is a 1954 war drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt from a screenplay by Ronald Millar and George Froeschel, and starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Victor Mature. The music score was by Walter Goehr and Bronislau Kaper, and the cinematography by Freddie Young. The picture, Gables last for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was filmed on location in the Netherlands and England. The supporting cast features Louis Calhern, O. E. Hasse, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ian Carmichael, Niall MacGinnis and Theodore Bikel. Betrayed was the fourth and final movie in which Gable played opposite Turner, and their third pairing set during World War II.
Diana Coupland provided Turners singing voice in the song, "Johnny Come Home".
Betrayed was spoofed in the film Top Secret! (1984).
Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an American colonel who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").
Plot
Betrayed is an espionage thriller set in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, and revolves mostly around the Dutch resistance movement.
Dutch intelligence agent Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) is ordered to keep an eye on suspected collaborator 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 Deventers suspicions concerning Seelers are correct, though he is strongly drawn to her. The ultimate revelation of the collaborators identity settles the issue of whether the couple can be enemies or lovers.
Cast
Production
The film was at one stage known as The True and the Brave with Kirk Douglas mentioned as a possible star. Richard Widmark was at one stage a fore runner for the part played by Victor Mature.
Filming took place in late 1953 and early 1954, on location in Holland and England.
It was the last film Gable made for MGM under his contract with them, which ended in March 1954.
Release
According to MGM records the film earned $1,966,000 in the US and Canada and $2,211,000 overseas, resulting in a profit of $821,000.
Critical reception
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."
Similar Movies
Clark Gable and Lana Turner appear in Betrayed and Homecoming. Flame & Citron (2008). Clark Gable and Lana Turner appear in Betrayed and Somewhere Ill Find You. Clark Gable and Lana Turner appear in Betrayed and Honky Tonk. Decision Before Dawn (1951).
Home media
Betrayed was released on DVD and digital download on March 23, 2009 as part of the Warner Archive.
References
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