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48 Hours to Live
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Wikipedia article
'48 Hours to Live' is a 1959 film starring Anthony Steel.
It was known as 'Man in the Middle' and was shot in Sweden. The movie was little seen outside Sweden.
Premise
A New York reporter, Mike Gibson, is sent to a Swedish island, Gotland, to interview a nuclear scientist. He discovers that foreign agents have kidnapped the scientist and his daughter.
Cast
*Anthony Steel as Mike Gibson
*Birger Malmsten as Paul Forsman
*Lewis Charles as Tony Marino
*Hkan Westergren as Christenson
*Ina Anders as Annika
*Peter Bourne as Charlie Carlson
*Ingemar Johansson
Production
Filming started June 1959.
Reception
The 'Monthly Film Bulletin' said "a fair amount of work in Swedish outdoor settings and a repetitive but catchy theme tune provide this ingenious comedy thriller with two tiny virtues. Otherwise the heavy handled rough stuff is funnier than the light relief; both the characterisation and the acting leave much to be desired; and a novel departure for a film made in Sweden the pursuit of a spy ring leads through a nudist camp inhabited, it seems, but not a single nudist."MAN IN THE MIDDLE, The Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 27, Iss. 312, (Jan 1, 1960): 100.
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