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Assignment: paris.

1952 Directed by Robert Parrish

Paris ... a city made for excitement ... excitement on a night made for murder !

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Dana Andrews George Sanders Audrey Totter Märta Torén Sandro Giglio Donald Randolph Herbert Berghof Ben Astar Willis Bouchey Earl Lee Jay Adler Frank Arnold Leon Askin Hanna Axmann-Rezzori Paul Birch Gail Bonney Monique Chantal Gino Corrado Marcel De La Brosse Maurice Doner Joseph Forte Paul Frees Gene Gary Don Gibson Sam Harris Paul Hoffman Pál Jávor Werner Klingler Don Kohler Show All… Rolf Lindau Maurice Marsac Michele Montau György Nagyajtay Charles H. Radilak Suzanne Ridgway Fay Roope Vito Scotti André Siméon Robert Stevenson Victor Sutherland Albert Szabo Hal Taggart Ken Terrell Sigfrid Tor Peter J. Votrian Murvyn Vye Georgiana Wulff Mari Blanchard William Woodson

Director Director

Robert Parrish

Producers Producers

Samuel Marx Jerry Bresler

Writers Writers

Paul Gallico William Bowers Jack Palmer White Pauline Gallico Walter Goetz

Editors Editors

Charles Nelson Donald W. Starling

Cinematography Cinematography

Burnett Guffey Ray Cory

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Carter DeHaven

Art Direction Art Direction

John Meehan

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Frank Tuttle

Composer Composer

George Duning

Costume Design Costume Design

Makeup makeup.

Clay Campbell

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Columbia Pictures

Primary Language

Spoken languages.

English French Hungarian Spanish

Alternative Titles

Aveux spontanes, Budapest antwortet nicht, Destinazione Budapest, Destino: Budapest, 巴黎任务, Aveux spontanés

Drama Thriller

Releases by Date

04 sep 1952, releases by country.

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Review by Josh Gillam ★★★½

Dana Andrews, Märta Torén and George Sanders star in this Cold War thriller about an American journalist in Paris who is sent to Budapest to investigate a mysterious meeting, and finds himself embroiled in a web of intrigue.

It takes a while to get going, with the focus on the central romance taking up a lot of the first act, but once the action moves behind the Iron Curtain the tension builds considerably. It’s really anti-Communist propaganda, but has enough suspense and mystery to keep the story going.

Particularly chilling was the way recordings are edited by the authorities implicate and imprison Andrews’ character, which still feels relevant today.

It could have developed some of the characters more, and takes a while to get going, but Assignment: Paris is a great thriller with some gripping moments.

Review by RanchoTuVu ★★★

A news bureau in Paris during the dark days of the Cold War covers the day's hard news as well as the latest in Parisian fashions with Dana Andrews as a WWII vet and tough New York reporter and style reporter Audrey Totter. But the background of communism draws Andrews closer to the beautiful European Marta Toren, who shows up at the paper kind of as the editor George Sanders' girlfriend, but gradually can't resist the appeal of Dana Andrews once he starts a charm offensive. Once Andrews winds up sent to Budapest on a dangerous assignment, it seems as if Sanders maybe sent him there to get him out of the way and clear his path to win the…

Review by Krautsalat ★★★½

52 Years in 52 Weeks 2020 : Film #44

A good bartender lets a customer cry in his own beer.

This spy thriller starts kinda light and slow but gets progressively darker and tighter, with a pretty effective torture montage thrown in for good measure.

Review by Kari ★★★½

It hit me while watching this movie that Dana Andrews and George Clooney look similar to one another. Earth shattering, right? Haha.

I saw this for Audrey Totter and I wasn't disappointed. It was a small role but she was great. The rest of the cast was terrific. The standout performance was by Marta Toren, a Swedish actress who died in 1957 at age 31 of a cerebral hemorrhage. She played her character with such grace, intelligence, humor, and warmth. I need to see her other movies.

Espionage movies released during this time can look so stylish with all the shadows and such. Because I don't have knowledge of all the politics from that time period, I can get confused. This one wasn't too bad although the ending was a bit flat.

Review by Filipe Furtado ★★½

Some cold war intrigue shot in thst pseudo realist 50s style. Good ambiance in the early newspaper scenes, but things go dry when the plot takes over. Solid cast at least, although Andrews is in one of those movies he is a little bored with. The underrated Robert Parrish directed (with some reshoots by Phil Karlson), but it is far from his more intriguing work.

Review by Silversaxophone ★★★

The best elements of this mildly bleak Cold War thriller presage much more involved and thorough pictures such as The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Manchurian Candidate , while showing the serious work of the New York Herald Tribune , which was circulated languidly just a few years later by Jean Seberg on the streets of Paris in Breathless . To its benefit, the anti-communist message is subsumed by the story, though the specifics of Hungary-United States politics might have been bit of a stretch for contemporary audiences. The cast is strong, with Dana Andrews’ cocky reporter broken down by the Communist Machine, and George Sanders’ cynical Bureau Chief. There is also some effective location work around the streets…

Review by 🥀 e m m é ★★★½

Seriously, this was kind of perfection. It's all romance, espionage, and newspaper game for Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, George Sanders (as a non-villain), and Audrey Totter. It's taut and suspenseful and Dana's hair gets mussed and I ask for little else in this life.

Review by Luke Thorne ★★★

Robert Parrish’s drama. An investigation into the rumour of a plot to overthrow Hungary’s communist dictatorship entangles an American journalist in a dangerous web of intrigue.

The story concerns arrogant investigative journalist Jimmy Race (Dana Andrews) and his uncompromising opponent, Jeanne Moray (Märta Torén), jumbling over worldwide intelligence and Cold War tensions in Communist Hungary.

While keeping track of a short-tempered story about a suspected American scout, Jimmy unintentionally brings the unwelcome consideration of Hungarian agent Anton Borvitch (Donald Randolph) to Jeanne’s continuing examination of conceivable conspiracy between Hungarian and Yugoslavian politicians, jeopardising both correspondents' lives.

Dana Andrews and Märta Torén both give good performances in their respective parts as Jimmy Race and Jeanne Moray, the two reporters who realise…

Review by mb ★★★½

loved sandy tate’s outfits!

Review by Zach Cheney

This is a lovely, suspenseful little (Cold) wartime artifact, one that initially presents itself as a propaganda piece—and it kind of is—but moves into more compelling territory even while maintaining a clear moral separation of nations. The result is that feeling you get when watching Hitchcock's Notorious after already being familiar with the modern classic Mission: Impossible 2 . You're thinking, I've seen this before. Wait, did John Woo remake a Hitchcock film without acknowledging it?! In this case, you've already seen Spielberg's Bridge of Spies , and around the halfway point of Assignment: Paris , you start to recognize a lot of similarities. By the very end, (spoiler?) this little-known 1952 Dana Andrews vehicle reveals itself to be practically shot-for-shot source material…

Review by Leavingfilmstrk ★★★

Good, not great. Everyone is good, Dana Andrews as reporter who ends up imprisoned, Märta Torén as fellow reporter and love interest, Audrey Totter, George Sanders. But the telling is too straightforward and dull, it's a good script and should have been more interesting.

Review by hotsake ★★

A surprisingly dull spy thriller that in lacking in the thriller department. The acting is serviceable as is the the direction but its fairly forgettable.

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Assignment: Paris

Dana Andrews (Jimmy Race) Märta Torén (Jeanne Moray) George Sanders (Nicholas Strang) Audrey Totter (Sandy Tate) Sandro Giglio (Grisha) Donald Randolph (Anton Borvitch) Herbert Berghof (Prime Minister Andreas Ordy) Ben Astar (Minister of Justice Vajos) Willis Bouchey (Biddle) Earl Lee (Dad Pelham)

Robert Parrish

Cold war intrigue in France and Hungary.

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George Sanders plays Nicholas Strang, the wise editor of the paper, for which Jimmy Race (Dana Andrews) works as a digging, scheming reporter. Viewers will recognize Sanders from All About Eve, again playing the older, wiser, mentor. A lot of time is spent with the viewer (but not the characters in the film) watching and hearing what is going on inside the foreign embassies and administration offices, so it's very much a cold war us- against- them story, with Race trying to get to the truth. Caught up in all this is fellow reporter Marta Toren as Jeanne Moray, and no-one is really sure what her story is.... We are led to think she is more involved than we know, but that part of the story seems to have been dropped, or deleted.

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