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Duration
  

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Adventure, History, Mystery

Screenplay
  
Language
  
English

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Director
  
Phil KarlsonRichard Widmark

Release date
  
April 24, 1961 (1961-04-24) (U.S.)

Based on
  
The Last Frontier1959 novel by Alistair McLean

Writer
  
Alistair MacLean (novel), Jean Hazlewood (screenplay)

Cast
  
(Michael Reynolds), (Julia), (Jancsi),
Charles Regnier
(The Count), (Elsa),
Heinz Moog
(Minister Ferenc Sakenov)

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Tagline
  
On-the-spot realism!

The Secret Ways is a 1961 American thriller film based on Alistair MacLean's novel The Last Frontier. Directed by Phil Karlson and Richard Widmark, it stars Richard Widmark.

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Plot

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In Vienna, 1956, after Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, American adventurer Michael Reynolds (Richard Widmark) is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, Professor Jansci (Walter Rilla), out of Communist-ruled Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution. Reynolds goes to Vienna to see the professor's daughter, Julia (Sonja Ziemann), and he persuades her to accompany him to Budapest. Once there, Reynolds is kidnapped by freedom fighters who take him to the professor's secret headquarters.

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Meanwhile, one of Jansci's trusted aides is captured by the Hungarian Secret Police and forced to reveal the professor's hiding place. Reynolds, Julia, and Jansci are quickly rounded up and taken to Szarhaza Prison, where they are tortured by the sadistic Colonel Hidas (Howard Vernon).

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They are rescued by a resistance fighter known as The Count (Charles Régnier), who tricks the Communists into placing the prisoners in his custody. At the last moment the ruse is discovered. The Count is killed as the other three race to the airport where a chartered plane is waiting. Hidas pursues them but is killed in an accident on the runway. Safe at last, Reynolds, Julia, and the professor leave Hungary.

Production

According to an interview in Cinema Retro, associate producer Euan Lloyd stated that producer and star Richard Widmark did not like director Phil Karlson's proposed tongue-in-cheek direction of the screenplay written by Widmark's wife Jean Hazlewood. Widmark took over the direction of the film without credit.


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