Count Five and Die (1957)

Directed by

Victor Vicas

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British intelligence operation uses a fake plan to mislead the Nazis before the D-Day invasion. The story follows the agents involved in running the deception and the risks they take.

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What happens

Count Five and Die is a 1957 British war thriller film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick and Annemarie Düringer. It was made by Zonic Productions and released in Britain and the US by Twentieth Century Fox. It was produced by Ernest Gartside with the screenplay by Jack Seddon and David Pursall, based on the non-fiction book of the same title by Barry Wynne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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