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Yellow Canary (Original title)
Date: 22 November 1943 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Herbert Wilcox

Synopsis: Spy melodrama about a girl who openly avows Nazi opinions and is sent to Canada, where, being in fact a British agent, she foils a Nazi plot.

Genre:
War

Subjects:
World War II, Espionage, Canada
Releases
Date: 1943Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8843 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (22)
An RKO Radio Picture: RKO Radio Pictures, Produced by: Herbert Wilcox, Production Manager: George Maynard, Assistant Director: Frank Hollands, Screen Play: Miles Malleson, De Witt Bodeen, [Based on a story] By: P.M. Bower, Director of Photography: Max Greene, Editor: Vera Campbell, Art Direction: W.C. Andrews, Make-up: Tony Sforzini, Musical Score by: Clifton Parker, Music Performed by: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recordist: John Stevens, Recordist: Desmond Dew, Sound Editor: Harry Miller, Technical Adviser: Lt. Comm. H. Longdon R.n., Technical Adviser: L/o L.J. Wastell, logo: Western Electric, Made at: D&P Studios
Cast (33)
Anna Neagle (Sally Maitland), Richard Greene (Jim Garrick), Nova Pilbeam (Betty Maitland), Lucie Mannheim (Madame Orlock), Albert Lieven (Jan Orlock), Cyril Fletcher (himself), George Thorpe (Colonel Hargreaves), Marjorie Fielding (Lady Maitland), Franklin Dyall (captain), Margaret Rutherford (Mrs Towcaster), Claude Bailey (Major Fothergill), Sybilla Binder (.), Valentine Dyall (German commander), Patrick Curwen ([Sir William Maitland]), Aubrey Mallalieu ([Reynolds]), David Horne ([admiral]), Leslie Dwyer ([steward]), Gordon McLeod ([officer]), Paul Dupuis ([Paul]), Eliot Makeham, Ian Fleming ([firewatcher]), Hedley Goodall ([passport officer]), Winifred Oughton ([Mrs Hargraves]), David Ward ([Sally's escort]), MacDonald Parke ([intelligence chief]), Gerry Wilmot, John Kannowin ([intelligence officer]), Clifford Buckton ([captain of the 'Christiani']), Grace Allardyce ([Maitland's maid]), Anthony Eustrel ([commissionaire]), Grizelda Hervey ([receptionist]), Tatiana Lieven ([chambermaid]), Edgar Driver ([guard])