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The Counterfeit Traitor

Actor(s): William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Erica Beer, Ernst Schroeder
Director(s): George Seaton
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Details

MPAA Rating: NR
Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Questionable for Children
Movie Release: 1962
DVD Release: 07/13/2004
Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned
Edition: Restored/Remastered,Special Collection
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: English
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 2 hrs 20 mins
Studio: Paramount
Members Wishing: 5
Genres: Spy Film, Unglamorized Spy Film, War Spy Film

Synopsis

In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in return for information on the Nazis. Erickson agrees to the plan and proceeds to make it look as if he is pro-Nazi. This subterfuge causes him to be branded a traitor, and his wife, believing Eric to be a Nazi, walks out on him. Nevertheless, Eric continues with his deceit and makes the Germans think that he is planning to construct an oil refinery in Sweden to serve as a fuel supply for Germany. As a result he is allowed entrance to four German oil refinery, and he passes on the information to Collins. But Eric is being put under surveillance by the Nazis. They discover that Eric's lover, Marianne (Lilli Palmer) is working for the Allies. Suddenly both Marianne and Eric are arrested and thrown into Moabit Prison -- with dire consequences for both of them. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Cast

William Holden - Eric Erickson
Lilli Palmer - Marianne Mollendorf
Hugh Griffith - Collins
Erica Beer - Klara Holtz
Ernst Schroeder - Baron von Oldenbourg
Eva Dahlbeck - Ingrid Erickson