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Confidential Agent is a american film of genre Drama directed by Herman Shumlin released in USA on 10 november 1945 with Charles Boyer
Confidential Agent (1945)
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Add to a movie listConfidential Agent is a 1945 spy film starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall, and made by Warner Bros. The movie was directed by Herman Shumlin and produced by Robert Buckner with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Robert Buckner, based on the novel The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene. The music score was by Franz Waxman and the cinematography by James Wong Howe. The supporting cast includes George Coulouris and Peter Lorre.
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In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Luis Denard (Charles Boyer), a former concert pianist, travels to England as a confidential agent of the Republican government. His mission is to buy coal in order to deny it to the Fascist rebels. On the ship he meets rich girl Rose Cullen (Lauren Bacall), whose father, Lord Benditch (Holmes Herbert), heads the firm with which Denard will negotiate.Actors
Charles Boyer
(Luis Denard)
Lauren Bacall
(Rose Cullen)
Peter Lorre
(Contreras)
Victor Francen
(Licata)
Wanda Hendrix
(Else)
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