Passport to Destiny (1944)
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Synopsis of Passport to Destiny
Originally titled Passport to Destiny, RKO's Passport to Adventure manages to be both whimsical and melodramatic all at once. Elsa Lanchester stars as a Cockney charwoman who sneaks into wartime Berlin, fully intending to kill Adolf Hitler. Lanchester is convinced that a snake-eyed charm left to her by her late military-officer husband will protect her from harm-and, given the ease with which she obtains a domestic job in the Berlin chancellory by posing as a deaf-mute, who's to say that the charm doesn't work? Once the Nazis catch on to Lanchester's mission, she is rescued by German officer Gordon Oliver, who happens to be a member of the underground resistance. One of the best bits in Passport to Adventure occurs at the beginning, when Elsa Lanchester gazes reverently upon a photo of her dear departed husband-whom we immediately recognize as Lanchester's real-life hubby Charles Laughton. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Passport to Destiny
- Elsa Lanchester - Ella
- Lenore Aubert - Grete
- Fritz Feld - Hausmeister
- Gavin Muir - Lord Haw Haw
- Anita Bolster - Agnes
- Hans Schumm - Prison Warden
- Gordon Oliver - Franz
- Lionel Royce - Dietrich
- Joseph Vitale - Lieutenant Bosch
- Lloyd Corrigan - Prof. Walthers
- Lumsden Hare - Captain
- Lydia Bilbrook - Millie
- Director(s):
- Ray McCarey
- Writer(s):
- Muriel Roy Bolton, Val Burton
- Producer(s):
- Herman Schlom
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