Circle of Deception

1960 film

Circle of Deception

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Directed by| Jack Lee
Screenplay by| Nigel Balchin
Robert Musel
Based on| Small Back Room in St. Marylebone
1953 story in Esquire
by Alec Waugh[1]
Produced by| Tom Morahan
Starring| Bradford Dillman
Suzy Parker
Harry Andrews
Cinematography| Gordon Dines
Edited by| Gordon Pilkington
Music by| Clifton Parker
Distributed by| Twentieth Century Fox

Release date

* November 1960 (1960-11)

Running time

| 100 minutes
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English

Circle of Deception is a 1960 CinemaScope British war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Bradford Dillman, Suzy Parker and Harry Andrews.[2]

## Plot[edit]

A Canadian officer is sent on a secret and dangerous mission during World War II. His superior officers deceptively give him false information about the planned invasion of 1944. He is told that this secret information must not get into enemy hands. He is transported into occupied territory in a way that ensures he will be captured. He resists torture but finally tells all. The Germans are misled and the Normandy landings succeed. The Canadian officer is now a broken man.

## Cast[edit]

* Bradford Dillman as Captain Paul Raine
* Suzy Parker as Lucy Bowen
* Harry Andrews as Captain Thomas Rawson
* Robert Stephens as Captain Stein
* Paul Rogers as Major William Spence
* John Welsh as Major Taylor
* Ronald Allen as Jim Abelson
* A. J. Brown as Frank Bowen
* Martin Boddey as Henry Crow
* Charles Lloyd-Pack as Ayres
* Jacques Cey as Cure
* John Dearth as Captain Ormrod
* Norman Coburn as Carter
* Hennie Scott as Small boy
* Richard Marner as German colonel
* Walter Gotell as Phoney Jules Ballard

## References[edit]

1. ^ American Film Industry
2. ^ BFI Database entry

## External links[edit]

* Circle of Deception at IMDb
* Circle of Deception at AllMovie
* Circle of Deception at the TCM Movie Database
* A Circle of Deception at the American Film Institute Catalog

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Films directed by Jack Lee

* The Pilot is Safe (1941)
* By Sea and Land (1944)
* The Woman in the Hall (1947)
* Once a Jolly Swagman (1948)
* The Wooden Horse (1950)
* South of Algiers (1953)
* Turn the Key Softly (1953)
* A Town Like Alice (1956)
* Robbery Under Arms (1957)
* The Captain's Table (1959)
* Circle of Deception (1960)
* From the Tropics to the Snow (1964)

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