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The Silent Invasion

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Director
  
Max Varnel

Music director
  
Bill Le Sage

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

3.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, War

Screenplay
  
Brian Clemens

Writer
  
Brian Clemens

Language
  
English

Release date
  
31 January 1962 (UK)

Initial release
  
January 31, 1962 (United Kingdom)

Cast
  
Eric Flynn
(Erik von Strafen),
Martin Benson
(Borge),
Francis de Wolff
(Emile),
Petra Davies
(Maria),
Andre Maranne
(Argen)

Similar movies
  
Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)

The Silent Invasion is a low budget 1962 British film.

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Plot

During WW II, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with German captain Eric Von Strafen. However, the romance comes to an abrupt end when her brother, a saboteur working for the Resistance, is killed. Maria now vows to exact revenge and to help the French Resistance any way she can.

Cast

  • Eric Flynn as Erik von Strafen
  • Petra Davies as Maria
  • Francis de Wolff as Emile
  • Martin Benson as S.S. Borge
  • Melvyn Hayes as Jean
  • Warren Mitchell as Robert
  • Guy Deghy as Pierre
  • Noel Dyson as Mme. Veroux
  • André Maranne as Argen
  • Jan Conrad as Sgt. Major
  • John Serret as Jacques
  • C. Denier Warren as Gillie
  • Max Faulkner as Curt
  • André Muller as Wilhelm

    • Critical reception

    TV Guide thought the film "overwrought and too unrealistic to be taken seriously."

    References

    The Silent Invasion Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Silent Invasion IMDb


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