Lilli Marlene
Lilli Marlene
Release: 1950-12-08
·Runtime: 74m
·★ 5.6
Drama
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
William Gell Productions
Monarch Productions Limited
Cast
Richard Murdoch
as Flight Lieutenant Murdoch / Capt. Wimpole
Leslie Dwyer
as Berry
Estelle Brody
as Estelle
Stanley Baker
as Evans
Irene Prador
as Nurse Schmidt
Richard Marner
as SS Colonel
John Blythe
as Holt
Marcel Poncin
as Lestoque
Hugh McDermott
as Steve
Walter Gotell
as Director of Propaganda
Michael Ward
as Wintertree
Lisa Daniely
as Lilli Marlene
Russell Hunter
as Scottie
Carl Jaffe
as Propaganda Chief
Peter Swanwick
as Chief Interrogator
Conrad Phillips
as Security Officer
