The Red Danube (1949)
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube. Janet Leigh plays Maria Buhlen, an Eastern Bloc ballerina who seeks political asylum in the British-occupied zone of Vienna. Maria's plight turns into a political tug-of-war involving a British colonel (Walter Pidgeon) and a Soviet colonel (Louis Calhern). Their ideological hagglings spill over into spiritualism, as represented by Mother Superior Ethel Barrymore, and romance, as personified by Maria's ardent suitor Major John McPhimister (Peter Lawford). Like earlier anti-Red cinematic exercises, The Red Danube failed to connect at the box office. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Sidney
Synopsis of The Red Danube
One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube. Janet Leigh plays Maria Buhlen, an Eastern Bloc ballerina who seeks political asylum in the British-occupied zone of Vienna. Maria's plight turns into a political tug-of-war involving a British colonel (Walter Pidgeon) and a Soviet colonel (Louis Calhern). Their ideological hagglings spill over into spiritualism, as represented by Mother Superior Ethel Barrymore, and romance, as personified by Maria's ardent suitor Major John McPhimister (Peter Lawford). Like earlier anti-Red cinematic exercises, The Red Danube failed to connect at the box office. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Red Danube
- Walter Pidgeon - Col. Michael "Jokey" Nicobar
- Peter Lawford - Maj. John "Twingo" McPhimister
- Janet Leigh - Maria Buhlen
- Melville Cooper - Pvt. David Moonlight
- Alan Napier - The General
- Kasia Orzazewski - Sister Kasmira
- Konstantin Shayne - Prof. Serge Bruloff
- Argentina Brunetti - Italian Woman
- Lotus Thompson - Woman Private
- Richard Fraser - Pilot
- Francis L. Sullivan - Col. Humphrey "Blinker" Omicron
- Doris Lloyd - Mrs. Omicron
- Ethel Barrymore - Mother Superior
- Angela Lansbury - Audrey Quail
- Louis Calhern - Col. Pinier
- Robert Coote - Brig. C.M.V. Catlock
- Roman Toporow - 2nd Lt. Maxim Omansky
- Tamara Shayne - Helena Nagard
- Janine Perreau - "Mickey" Mouse
- Tito Vuolo - Italian Billposter
- John Royce - Sergeant
- Kenneth Hunter - Brigadier General
- Henry Kulky - Lieutenant
- Audrey Long - Countess Cressanti
- Director(s):
- George Sidney
- Writer(s):
- Arthur Wimperis, Gina Kaus
- Producer(s):
- Carey Wilson
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