SECRET WAYS - BLU

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Action, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Brand New 2K Master! Acclaimed filmmaker Phil Karlson (99 River Street, The Silencers, Walking Tall) directed this espionage thriller based on an Alistair MacLean (The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra) novel and starring screen great Richard Widmark (Pickup on South Street, The Alamo, Madigan). Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds (Widmark) is hired to help Professor Jancsi (Walter Rilla, Code 7, Victim 5), a Hungarian scientist wanted by the Russians, escape from Budapest. Mike and Julia (Sonja Ziemann, The Bridge at Remagen), the professor's daughter, cross the border posing as journalists, but encounter a problem - the professor is a staunch freedom fighter and doesn't want to be rescued! Two of the films best features are the terrific black-and-white photography by Mutz Greenbaum (Night and the City) and original score by legendary composer John Williams (Jaws, Star Wars). Co-starring Senta Berger (Diabolically Yours, The Ambushers).
• Cast: Oskar Wegrostek, Stefan Schnabel, Hubert von Meyerinck, Charles Regnier, Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Howard Vernon, Heinz Moog, Senta Berger, Helmut Janatsch, John Horsley, Brigitte Brunmüller, Raoul Retzer, Georg Köváry, Walter Wilz, Jochen Brockmann, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Walter Rilla, Rudolf Rösner, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Ady Berber, Phil Karlson, Alistair MacLean, Jean Hazlewood
• Director: Richard Widmark
• Runtime: 1:52
• Company: Universal Pictures Company, Inc., Kino Lorber Incorporated
• Media Format: Movie