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Lisbon Story (1946)

Lisbon Story poster
Directed by
Paul L. Stein
Genre
musical film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cabaret singer and a British intelligence officer go to Berlin to free an atomic scientist held by the enemy. The story mixes romance and spy thrills with musical numbers.

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What happens

Lisbon Story is a 1946 British musical thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Walter Rilla and Austin Trevor. It was based on the musical The Lisbon Story by Harold Purcell and Harry Parr Davies that ran at The Hippodrome in 1943. The screenplay concerns a cabaret singer and a British intelligence officer who travel to Berlin to rescue an atomic scientist being held there. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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