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Desperate Moment

1953
United Kingdom
feature film - Crime
88 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Dirk Bogarde (Simon Van Halder); Mai Zetterling (Anna DeBurg); Philip Friend (Capt. Bob Sawyer); Albert Lieven (Paul Ravitch, alias Schleger); Fritz Wendhausen (Warder Goeter); Carl Jaffe (Cellblock Guard Becker); Gerard Heinz (German Prison Doctor); André Mikhelson (Polizei Inspector); Harold Ayer (Capt. Trevor Wood, U.S. Army); Walter Gotell (Ravitch's Servant-Henchman); Friedrich Joloff (Valentin Vladek, alias Winter); Simone Silva (Mink, Valentin's girl); Ferdy Mayne (Detective Laurence); Walter Rilla (Col. Bertrand, Dutch consulate); Antonio Gallardo (Spanish Dancer); Paul Hardtmuth (Wharf Watchman); Theodore Bikel (Anton Meyer)

Direction

Director: Compton Bennett

Assistant director: Robert Lynn; Stanley Hosgood

Writing

Screenplay: George H. Brown; Patrick Kirwan

Based on: Martha Albrand (novel)

Script supervisor: Barbara Cole

Camera & Light

Director of photography: C.M. Pennington-Richards

Camera operator: James Bawden

Still photographer: Norman Gryspeerdt

Decor

Make-up artist: George Blackler

Costume design: Julie Harris

Hairdresser: Biddy Chrystal

Art Director: Maurice Carter

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: John D. Guthridge

Assistant editor: Roy Fry; Peter Flack

Sound: John Dennis

Sound assistant: Robert T. MacPhee

Audio mixing: Gordon K. McCallum

Music

Music: Ronald Binge; Ronald Hanmer

Production

Producer: George H. Brown

Executive Producer: Earl St. John

Unit production manager: F. Sherwin Green

Production office: Marguerite Green

Companies

Production company: George H. Brown Productions