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1950s Spy Movies

Public list by WPS with 23 movies or TV shows/series

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Jet Pilot(1957)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Action
2.7/5 (with 18 votes)

John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen, Hans Conried, Denver Pyle, Ivan Triesault, ...

Kim(1950)

1h 53min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

Directed by Victor Saville - With Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Arnold Moss, Jeanette Nolan, Michael Ansara, ...

Big Jim McLain(1952)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

Directed by Edward Ludwig - With John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Alan Napier, Veda Ann Borg, Hans Conried, ...

The Scarlet Coat(1955)

1h 41min | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance / Love, War
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.

Directed by John Sturges - With Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders, Anne Francis, John McIntire, Rhys Williams, ...

Odette(1950)

2h 4min | War, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)

Directed by Herbert Wilcox - With Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring, Bernard Lee, Peter Ustinov, Fritz Wendhausen, ...

Foreign Intrigue(1956)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama, Action, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.

Directed by Sheldon Reynolds - With Robert Mitchum, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Page, Inga Tidblad, Eugene Deckers, Georges Hubert, ...

Highly Dangerous(1950)

1h 30min | Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker - With Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne, Anton Diffring, Anthony Newley, ...

Hell and High Water(1954)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Action, War
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.

Directed by Samuel Fuller - With Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, David Wayne, Eugene Borden, ...

Uomini ombra(1954)

1h 34min | Adventure

Italian naval secret agents acquire a British codebook and the Italian counter-espionage agents start tracking enemy agents working undercover in Italy and providing false information.

Directed by Francesco De Robertis - With Giorgio Albertazzi, Paolo Stoppa, Eduardo Ciannelli, Ugo Sasso, Pietro Pastore, Francesco Barbaro, ...

The Spies(1957)

2h 5min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - With Curd Jürgens, Véra Clouzot, Gérard Séty, Sam Jaffe, Peter Ustinov, Bernard Lajarrige, ...

Operation Thunderbolt(1956)

1h 35min | Adventure, Action, Thriller

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Gérard Sandoz - With Blanchette Brunoy

Tokyo File 212(1951)

1h 24min | Crime, Drama
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.

Directed by Stuart E. McGowan, Dorrell McGowan
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Blackhawk(1952)

4h 2min | Action, Adventure
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.

Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred F. Sears - With Kirk Alyn, John Crawford, Michael Fox, Don C. Harvey, Rick Vallin, Marshall Reed, ...

Radar Secret Service(1950)

59min | Romance / Love, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
1.7/5 (with 7 votes)

A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.

Directed by Sam Newfield - With John Howard, Adele Jergens

Dick Barton at Bay(1950)

1h 4min | Adventure, Crime, Kids & Family
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).

Directed by Godfrey Grayson - With Don Stannard

The Bamboo Prison(1954)

1h 19min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

Directed by Lewis Seiler

Little Red Monkey(1955)

1h 11min | Crime
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who as fled the U.S.S.R. An attempt is made on Dushenko's life with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.

Directed by Ken Hughes - With Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier, Sylva Langova, Gianfranco Parolini, Ed Devereaux, ...

Government Agents vs Phantom Legion(1951)

2h 47min | Action, Crime
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers.

Directed by Fred C. Brannon - With Walter Reed, Dick Curtis, John Pickard, Pierce Lyden, George Meeker

Captain Ardant(1951)

1h 32min

Representing the French authority in Morocco, Captain Ardant is the target of the bloodthirsty rebel leader Malek. In order to appropriate himself in arms, he does not hesitate to take the captain's collaborator hostage and to do despicable blackmail.

Directed by André Zwobada - With André Zwobada, Georges Lautner, Gilles Quéant, Guy Decomble, Jean Danet, Raymond Cordy, ...

Wolves Hunt at Night(1952)

1h 38min | Drama

A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.

Directed by Bernard Borderie - With Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis de Funès, Carla Del Poggio, Fernand Ledoux, John Kitzmiller, Marcel Herrand, ...

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders(1953)

2h 47min | Action

A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.

Directed by Franklin Adreon - With William "Bill" Henry, Susan Morrow, Arthur Space, Dale Van Sickel, Pierre Watkin

Samadhi(1950)

2h 45min | Drama, History

Shekhar falls in love with Lilly D'Souza, a performer, only to discover she is a British spy. He hands over Lilly and her sister, Dolly, to the INA, which sentences both to death.

Directed by Ramesh Saigal - With Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaywant, Kuldip Kaur, Shyam, Shashi Kapoor

Nyugati övezet(1952)

1h 48min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Zoltán Várkonyi
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