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Man on a String

1960
United States
feature film - Thriller
92 min. (2552 m.)
Location shooting / Berlin story line

short description

Spy film about an american film producer turned doube agent.

Cast

Actor/-ess: Ernest Borgnine (Boris Mitrov); Kerwin Mathews (Bob Avery); Colleen Dewhurst (Helen Benson); Alexander Scourby (Colonel Vadja Kubelov); Glenn Corbett (Frank Sanford); Vladimir Sokoloff (Boris Mitrovs Father); Friedrich Joloff (General Nikolai Chapayev); Richard Kendrick (Inspector Jenkins); Ed Prentiss (Adrian Benson); Holger Hagen (Hans Grünwald); Bob Iller (Hartmann); Reinhold Pasch (Otto Bergman); Hanna Landy (Bess Harris); Carl Jaffe (Peoples Judge); Eva Pflug (Tanja Rosnova); Michael Mellinger (Detective)

Voice: Clete Roberts

Direction

Director: André De Toth

Assistant director: Jean Hoerl; Eddie Saeta

Writing

Screenplay: John H. Kafka; Virginia Shaler; James L. Shute; James P. Cavanagh

Based on: Boris Morros (Novel »Ten Years a Counterspy«); Charles Samuels (Novel »Ten Years a Counterspy«)

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Albert Benitz (Berlin); Charles Lawton Jr.; Pierre Poincarde (Moscow); Gayne Rescher (New York)

Decor

Production design: Fritz Maurischat; Hans-Jürgen Kiebach

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Al Clark

Music

Music: George Duning

Production

Producer: Louis De Rochemont

Co-Producer: Lothar Wolff; Louis De Rochemont III

Unit production manager: Kurt Hartmann

Companies

Production company: RD-DR Productions

Commissioned by: Columbia Pictures Corporation