The Man Between

Oct 19, 1953

1h 40m

★ 7.1

Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!

Overview

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

Genres

Thriller

Production Companies

London Films Productions

The Man Between Trailers

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Cast

Suzanne Mallison

Claire Bloom

Ivo Kern

James Mason

Bettina

Hildegard Knef

Martin Mallison

Geoffrey Toone

Lizzi

Hilde Sessak

Halendar

Aribert Wäscher

Olaf Kastner

Ernst Schröder

Horst

Dieter Krause

Inspector Kleiber

Karl John

Opera singer

Ljuba Welitsch

Kolldehoff EaEasstern German Police Officer commanding the hunt for Ivo Kern and Susanne Mallison (uncredited)

Reinhard Kolldehoff

Construction Worker on Generator (uncredited)

Frederick Schiller

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