Posted: Mon., Dec. 31, 1951, 11:00pm PT

Assignment - Paris

By Variety Staff

Columbia. Director Robert Parrish; Producer Samuel Marx, Jerry Bresler; Writer William Bowers, Walter Goetz, Jack Palmer White; Camera Burnett Guffey, Ray Cory Editor Charles Nelson; Music George Duning

Dana Andrews Marta Toren George Sanders Audrey Totter Sandro Giglio Willis Bouchey

A topical thriller of newspaper work under the handicaps of the Iron Curtain. Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, George Sanders and Audrey Totter are newspaper people attached to the Paris office of a stateside paper, involved in the tale of intrigue. Spy-chase angles are mixed with romantic involvements, plus some speaking out against Communist rule in such countries as Hungary.

Story is from the Pauline and Paul Gallico story, serialized in the SatEvePost as Trial by Terror.

Andrews, a good, aggressive reporter, is sent to the Paris office, where Sanders is the editor. He immediately falls for Toren, a staff member just back from Budapest with a story of plotting between the Hungarian puppet dictator and Tito, but which she can't back up with proof.

Details of radio-telephone delivery of news from correspondents to the Paris bureau, with the Red censors holding itchy fingers on the controls, its reception, interpretation and dissemination, along with typical undercover spy work, sinister characters, etc, all help hold the interest.

(B&W) Extract of a review from 1952. Running time: 84 MIN.