A Tale of Five Cities

Mar 1, 1951

1h 26m

★ 4.9

They've Got Great Big Beautiful Ideas!

Overview

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

A.L.C.E.

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Cast

Bob Mitchell

Bonar Colleano

Lesley

Barbara Kelly

Jeannine Meunier

Anne Vernon

Kathaline Telek

Eva Bartok

Maria Severini

Gina Lollobrigida

Charlotte Smith (as Karin Himbold)

Karin Himboldt

Aldo Mazzetti

Marcello Mastroianni

Charlady

Lily Kann

Levinsky

Danny Green

Charlotte's Brother

Carl Jaffe

New York Magazine Editor (as Macdonald Parke)

MacDonald Parke

Matron

Aletha Orr

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