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Les Espions
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Wikipedia article
'Les Espions' ("The Spies") is a 1957 French-Italian noir mystery film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Curd Jrgens, Peter Ustinov O. E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe, Paul Carpenter, Vra Clouzot, Martita Hunt and Grard Sty,. The music was composed by Georges Auric.
It was shot at the Saint-Maurice in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ren Renoux.
Plot
The plot concerns a doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital, who is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
Cast
* Curd Jrgens as Alex
* Peter Ustinov as Michel Kaminsky
* O. E. Hasse as Hugo Vogel
* Sam Jaffe as Sam Cooper
* Paul Carpenter as Le colonel Howard
* Vra Clouzot as Lucie
* Martita Hunt as Connie Harper
* Grard Sty as Le docteur Malic
* Gabrielle Dorziat as Madame Andre - I'infirmire
* Louis Seigner as Valette - le morphinomane
* Pierre Larquey as Le chauffeur de taxi
* Georgette Anys as La buraliste
* Jean Brochard as Le surveillant-gnral
* Bernard Lajarrige as Le garon de caf
* Dominique Davray as L'Alsacienne
* Daniel Emilfork as Helmut Petersen - un espion
* Jean-Jacques Lcot as Le faux contrleur (as Jean-Jacques Lecot)
* Robert Lombard as Le contrleur
* Patrick Dewaere as Le petit Moinet (as Patrick Maurin)
* Clment Harari as Victor - le faux garon de caf
* Sacha Pitoff as Lon (as Sacha Pitoeff)
* Fernand Sardou as Pierre
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