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Screen legends Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind) and Gene Tierney (Laura) team up in this exciting drama about a passionate love affair set in postwar Russia.
Philip Sutherland (Gable), a foreign correspondent based in Russia, falls in love with Maria Lamarkina (Tierney), a lovely ballerina. They marry and Maria applies for an exit visa so they can return to the United States together. But Cold War politics intervene and she is detained in Russia by the KGB while Philip is escorted home.
Months pass and Philip, who has tried every official channel, devises a desperate plan to return to Russia for his bride. Political intrigue, fabulous ballet sequences and a timeless love story make this thrilling drama a classic.
Original Release
03/18/1953
US Release
05/01/1953
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Clark Gable | Philip Sutherland |
Gene Tierney | Marya Lamarkina |
Bernard Miles | Joe Brooks |
Richard Haydn | Christopher Wellington St. John Denny |
Belita | Valentina Alexandrovna |
Kenneth More | Steve Quillan |
Karel Stepanek | Commissar |
Theodore Bikel | Lieutenant |
Anna Valentina | Svetlana Mikhailovna |
Frederick Valk | Kuragin |
Directors
Writers
Paul Somers, Ronald Millar, George Froeschel
Cast
Name | Character |
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Clark Gable | Philip Sutherland |
Gene Tierney | Marya Lamarkina |
Bernard Miles | Joe Brooks |
Richard Haydn | Christopher Wellington St. John Denny |
Belita | Valentina Alexandrovna |
Kenneth More | Steve Quillan |
Karel Stepanek | Commissar |
Theodore Bikel | Lieutenant |
Anna Valentina | Svetlana Mikhailovna |
Frederick Valk | Kuragin |
Peter Illing | N.K.V.D. Man |
Robert Henderson | U.S. Ambassador |
Stanley Maxted | John Barnes |
Meinhart Maur | Lemkov |
Alexis Chesnakov | General Zhdanov |
Iosif Stalin | Self |
Martin Benson | Toasting Russian Officer |
Jim Brady | Guard at Bolshoi Theatre |
Anton Diffring | Hotel Desk Clerk |
Anton Dolin | Marya's Partner |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Clarence Brown | Producer |