Assignment in Brittany (1943)

Directed by

Jack Conway

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British intelligence officer goes undercover in Nazi-occupied France to impersonate a captured soldier. He must complete a mission while navigating danger and romance with the local resistance.

suspensefulpatriotictenseglossyaction-pacedwartimeromanticclassic

What happens

Assignment in Brittany is a 1943 war film directed by Jack Conway and starring French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont and Swedish actress Signe Hasso, both in their American film debuts, and American actress Susan Peters. The film was adapted from a novel by Helen MacInnes, which was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post from May 2 to June 20, 1942, as Cross Channel, and became a bestseller when published as Assignment in Brittany. MGM bought the screen rights in February 1942. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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