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Venetian Bird is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Ralph Thomas released in USA on 22 april 1953 with Richard Todd
Venetian Bird (1952)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 22 april 1953
Length 1h35
Directed by Ralph Thomas
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Rating62%
Venetian Bird [aka The Assassin] is a 1952 British thriller film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Richard Todd, Eva Bartok and John Gregson.
Synopsis
British private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) is employed to travel to Venice and locate an Italian who is to be rewarded for his assistance to Allied airmen during the Second World War. Once he arrives in Italy, however, he becomes mixed up in an assassination and a great deal of mystery. The mystery revolves around whether Renzo Uccello (John Gregson) actually died a few years earlier in World War II or not. The city of Venice provides a familiar and magnificent backdrop for the story.Actors
Richard Todd
(Edward Mercer)
John Bailey
Eva Bartok
(Adriana Medova)
John Gregson
(Renzo Uccello)
George Coulouris
(Chief of Police Spadoni)
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