Spy in the Sky!

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Spy in the Sky!
Allied Artists Pictures (US)
Release date
20 July 1958
Running time
75 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish

Spy in the Sky! is a 1958 American-British spy thriller film directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring Steve Brodie, Andrea Domburg and George Coulouris.[1]

The film is based on the 1954 novel Counterspy Express by

Albert Sidney Fleischman.[2] It was shot at the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam and on location in Vienna
.

Plot

A German scientist who knows the secrets of the

Sputnik rocket programme goes on the run from the Soviets
.

Cast

References

  1. ^ American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations p.204
  2. ^ Goble p.160

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Pomerance, Murray (ed.) American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
  • Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. McFarland, 2017.

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