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State Department: File 649
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = State Department: File 649
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| director = Sam Newfield
| producer = Sigmund Neufeld
| writer = Milton Raison
| narrator =
| starring = See below
| music = Lucien Cailliet
| cinematography = Jack Greenhalgh
| editing = Holbrook N. Todd
| distributor = Film Classics, Inc
| released = 11 February 1949
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =$750,000
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'State Department: File 649' is a 1949 film noir Cinecolor American film directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Peter Stewart").
The film is also known as 'Assignment in China' in the United Kingdom.
Plot summary
Kenneth Seeley (William Lundigan), member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon (Virginia Bruce ), a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and they'll have to make a plan to escape.
Cast
Production
Filming started 15 September at Nassour Studios.
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