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CANDLELIGHT IN ALGERIA |
Title of the Film | CANDLELIGHT IN ALGERIA |
Alternative Titles | |
English Titles | |
Year of Release | 1944 |
Country of Origin | UK |
Language(s) | English |
Run Time (in minutes) | 85 |
Length (in meters) | 2345 |
Colour | b/w |
Genre | Spy thriller, anti-Nazi |
Based on/Source | |
Production Companies | British Aviation, British Lion |
Producer(s) | John Stafford |
Director | George King |
Cast | James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Walter Rilla, Lea Seidl, Sybilla Binder, Hella Kurty, Meinhart Maur |
Literature | Monthly Film Bulletin, January 1944 Jewish Chronicle, 18 February 1944 Times, 21 February 1944 Die Zeitung, 25 February 1944 Punch, 1 March 1944 Picturegoer, 18 March 1944 The Nation, 22 July 1944 (James Agee) New York Times, 31 July 1944 |
Special notes | Director of photography: Otto Heller Song "Flamme d'amour": music by Hans May "There is no harm in it, and no special interest either, except in Walter Rilla's performance and in watching the English try, pretty successfully, to make American types." (James Agee) |