Night People (1954)
- Starring:
- Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, (more)
- Director(s):
- Nunnally Johnson
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Synopsis of Night People
"You've never SEEN Gregory Peck until you've seen him in CINEMASCOPE." So read the publicity hype for 20th Century-Fox's Night People. Actually, Peck is his usual solid, stoic self as Col. Van Dyke, a CIA officer stationed in West Berlin. When an American soldier is kidnapped by the Soviets in the Eastern sector, Van Dyke is verbally assaulted by the soldier's influential industrialist father Leatherby (Broderick Crawford), who demands that something be done immediately. The Colonel realizes that it's not as simple as that: in return for the soldier, he is expected to turn over an elderly couple, both former anti-Nazi activists, to the East Germans, who will probably execute the couple. Leatherby backs off a bit when he meets the couple, then agrees to let Van Dyke handle the crisis in the most diplomatic manner possible. Things come to a head when the Colonel discovers that one of his trusted aides (Anita Bjork) is in league with the Soviets. Filmed on location in Germany, Night People is capped by a deliciously ironic coda. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Night People
- Gregory Peck - Col. Van Dyke
- Anita Björk - Hoffy
- Walter Abel - Foster
- Casey Adams - Frederick S. Hobari
- Peter Van Eyck - Petrechine
- Hugh McDermott - Burns
- John Horsley - Stanways
- Peter Beauvais - Driver
- Ted Avery - Johnny
- Broderick Crawford - Leatherby
- Rita Gam - Miss Cates
- Buddy Ebsen - Sgt. McColloch
- Jill Esmond - Frau Schindler
- Marianne Koch - Kathy
- Paul Carpenter - Col. Whitby
- Lionel Murton - Lakeland
- Otto Reichow - Russian Major
- Director(s):
- Nunnally Johnson
- Writer(s):
- Nunnally Johnson, Tom Reed, Jed Harris
- Producer(s):
- Nunnally Johnson
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