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Secret Mission is a British film of genre Drama directed by Harold French released in USA on 30 august 1944 with Hugh Williams
Secret Mission (1942)
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Add to a movie listSecret Mission is a 1942 British war film directed by Harold French and starring Hugh Williams, James Mason, Nancy Price, Carla Lehmann and Roland Culver.
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During the Second World War, two British army officers, Garnett and Gowan, together with Private Clark, who used to live in France and ran a café with his French wife, and Raoul, a member of the Free French forces, are dropped off on the coast of occupied France. Their mission is to collect intelligence on German military strength in the area, prior to an airborne raid. They rendezvous at the chateau used as German headquarters, which is Raoul's ancestral home. His sister Michele still lives there, but is resigned to cooperation with the occupiers, and is too frightened to assist in the men's mission.Actors
Hugh Williams
(Major Peter Garnett)
James Mason
(Raoul de Carnot)
Michael Wilding
(Private Nobby Clark)
Carla Lehmann
(Michele de Carnot)
Roland Culver
(Captain Red Gowan)
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