- Title: VM-249
- Summary: FOREIGN INTRIGUE: SPY DRAMA SET IN COLD WAR EUROPE WITH SYNDA SCOTT, JEROME THOR. JOHN PADOVAND. GORDON LOWENADLEE.
- Description:00:28:10 - MAN RUNS DOWN NARROW EUROPEAN STREET BEING CHASED STOPS TO LOOK IF ANYONE IS FOLLOWING HIM. 00:28:39 - CU HAND OPENS DOOR. ARMED POLICEMEN SHADOWS ON THE WALL SEARCHING AN EMPTY APARTMENT FOR CLUES. MAN CLAIMS HE WAS HELD PRISONER AND ESCAPED FROM THE APARTMENT. DETECTIVE LOOKS AT WRIST WATCH. DETECTIVES QUESTION MAN 00:30:51 - DINERS AT RESTAURANT. COUPLE BEHIND NEWSPAPER, WOMAN READS ARTICLE OUT LOUD. COUPLE DISCUSS CRIME CASE. 00:31:20 - MAN JOINS COUPLE AT TABLE IN RESTAURANT. POLITICAL DISCUSSION COLD WAR DISCUSSION ABOUT NAZI TERRORIST HANS BREMEN ALIVE IN BERLIN. 00:33:15 - COUPLE FEEL BUMP ON MAN'S HEAD 00:33:30 - MAN ASKS FOR HELP FROM COUPLE ON INVESTIGATIVE TRIP TO BERLIN 00:34:50 - WOMAN GETS UP FROM RESTAURANT TABLE LEAVING TWO MEN BEHIND 00:34:59 - 1950s PASSENGER PLANE TAKES OFF AT AIRPORT 00:35:07 - MAN VISITS GERMAN JAIL. GUARD UNLOCKS GATE. TALKS TO WARDEN ABOUT ALLEGED SUICIDE OF NAZI LEADER IN THE JAIL. 00:37:45 - VISITOR ESCORTED AND LET OUT OF JAIL AT FRONT GATE 00:37:54 - GUESTS IN GERMAN HOTEL LOBBY. WOMAN LOCKS ARMS WITH MAN, ESCORTED 00:38:00 - AMERICAN TOURIST AT HOTEL RESERVATION DESK. CHECKING INTO HOTEL. GIVEN RESERVATION CARD TO FILL OUT. HOTEL GUEST GIVEN ROOM KEY. HOTEL GUEST WALKS UP TO HIS ROOM FOLLOWED BY BELLHOP. 00:38:51 - INSIDE ROOM, BELL HOP OPENS WINDOW AND ASKS QUESTIONS, AMERICAN VISITOR PULLS OUT PACK OF CIGARETTES, LIGHTS A CIGARETTE WHILE HAVING SMALL TALK WITH BELL HOP. 00:39:50 - BELL HOP LEAVES MAN THINKING. PENSIVE LOOK 00:40:10 - MAN JUMPS UP AND PLACES A CALL TO PARIS. GIVES HOTEL TELEPHONE OPERATOR PHONE NUMBER. 00:40:29 - WOMAN PLAYING DARTS, PULLS THE DARTS OUT OF DART BOARD. CALLED TO THE TELEPHONE. TAKES PHONE CALL. TALKING ON THE PHONE, DESPERATE MAN ON THE PHONE. GETS BAD NEWS, IN SHOCK PUTS THE PHONE DOWN 00:41:30 - MAN PACES IN HOTEL ROOM, SNAPS HIS FINGERS WHEN HE AN IDEA COMES TO HIM 00:41:40 - MAN PACES IN HOTEL ROOM, SNAPS HIS FINGERS WHEN AN IDEA COMES TO HIM, GRABS HIS TIE AND OVERCOAT, LEAVES HOTEL ROOM 00:42:02 - SUSPICIOUS LOOKING MAN STANDING ON STREET CORNER. MAN PASSES HIM, STOPS, TURNS AROUND, THEY STARE AT EACH OTHER, MAN PACES IN FRONT OF HOTEL. WAITING. LOOKING AT WRIST WATCH. 00:42:40 - MAN GETS OUT OF CAR, MAN THINKS IT'S THE FRIEND HE'S WAITING FOR. FRENCH MAN SAYS "CRAZY AMERICAN". MISTAKEN IDENTITY. CLICHES. 00:42:53 - HOTEL LOBBY. MAN EAVESDROPS ON MAN MAKING A PHONE CALL. WARNS MAN NOT TO COME TO THE HOTEL BUT WON'T EXPLAIN WHY SET UP A MEETING 00:43:48 - EAVESDROPPING MEN LISTEN AND MAKE PLANS 00:44:08 - MAN WALKS DOWN STEEP ROCKY BANK, MEETS FRIEND AT SECLUDED AREA TO WARN HIM OF DANGER AND MAKE PLANS 00:45:23 - MAN SHOUTS HELLO AT ATTRACT ATTENTION AT UNMANNED HOTEL RESERVATION DESK. HAS TALK WITH HOTEL MANAGER. SETS MANAGER UP WITH FALSE INFORMATION 00:46:23 - VILLAINOUS PAIR FIGURES OUT NEXT MOVE 00:46:52 - MAN GETS BACK TO HIS HOTEL ROOM, TAKES OFF OVERCOAT REVEALING ROPE TIES AROUND HIS WAIST. OPENS WINDOW, SEES MAN WAITING BELOW, UNTIES THE ROPE, FASTENS ROPE TO WINDOW, THROWS ROPE DOWN, MAN CLIMBS UP ROPE 00:47:26 - MAN AT WINDOW HEARS SOMEONE BREAKING INTO THE ROOM, MAN WITH A GUN ENTERS, MAN HIDES BEHIND THE DOOR & KNOCKS THE GUN FROM VILLAIN'S HAND. FAKE PUNCHES THROWN BAD ACTING. MAN FALLS ON THE BED, MEN STRUGGLE, CHOKING, MAN BEING CHOKED. VILLAIN PICKS UP AN ASHTRAY & HITS MAN IN THE HEAD, HE FALLS TO THE FLOOR GIVING VILLAIN TIME TO GRAB THE GUN 00:48:00 - VILLAIN WITH A GUN BACKS UP TO WALL UNDER WINDOW. MAN WAITING IN THE WINDOW SNEAKS UP AND HITS HIM OF THE HEAD WITH A ROCK KNOCKING HIM OUT. 00:48:11 - RELIVED MAN SITS CROSS LEGGED INDIAN STYLE ON THE FLOOR AND LOOSENS HIS TIE. BREATHES A SIGH OF RELIEF 00:48:14 - MAN JUMPS THROUGH OPEN WINDOW INTO HOTEL ROOM & PICKS UP THE GUN. 00:48:30 - UNCONSCIOUS VILLAIN STARTS TO REVIVE, MAN PISTOL WHIPS HIM. KNOCKS HIM OUT AGAIN 00:48:43 - ARMED MAN CREEPS AROUND A CORNER FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER MAN THEY CREEP AROUND, CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE ANY NOISE. SNEAKING AROUND HOTEL LOBBY AS IF THEY MIGHT FIND TROUBLE 00:50:20 - VILLAINS COME FROM ROOMS & SURROUND THE TWO MEN 00:52:00 - MAN WALKS OUT OF HOTEL, SHOTS HEARD. GERMAN POLICE STORM THE HOTEL, MEN DODGE BULLETS OTHERS ENGAGE IN A SHOOT-OUT WITH THE COPS. BAD GUYS TAKEN AWAY. 00:52:25 - WOMAN ADMITS THAT SHE SAVED THE DAY, MEN EAT HUMBLE PIE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-249