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Yellow Canary (1943)

Yellow Canary poster
Directed by
Herbert Wilcox
Genre
propaganda film, spy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British woman who sympathizes with Nazis sails to Canada during World War Two. She is followed by spies who suspect her true loyalties.

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What happens

Yellow Canary is a 1943 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Richard Greene and Albert Lieven. Neagle plays a British Nazi sympathiser who travels to Halifax, Canada, trailed by spies from both sides during the Second World War. Neagle and director/producer Wilcox collaborated on a number of previous film projects. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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