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The Traitor (Original title)The Accused (Alternative title)
Date: 1957 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Michael McCarthy

Synopsis: Survivors of a wartime resistance group meet at an English country house to find out which of them had betrayed their leader to the Nazis. There follow two killings and a number of plot surprises.

Genre:
Thriller
Releases
Date: 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 88 mins Length: 7933 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: Non-TheatricalFormat: 16mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 88 mins 00 secs - Length: 3200 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (25)
Fantur Films present: Fantur Films, Produced by: E.J. Fancey, Production Manager: John Workman, Production Supervisor: O.E. Negus, 1st Assistant Director: Peter Crowhurst, 2nd Assistant Director: Dennis Hall, Continuity: Vera Pavey, Original Story and Screen Play by: Michael McCarthy, Director of Photography: Bert Mason, Photography (Location): Hal Morey, Alfred Burger, Camera Operator: G. Massey Collier, Camera Operator: Sidney Davies, Camera Operator [Location]: Cyril Gray, Assistant Camera Operator: Monty Tomblin, Still Photographer: Edward Orton, Editor: Monica Kimick, Art Director: Herbert Smith, Wardrobe: Rene Coke, Make-up: Sidney Turner, Hairdresser: Joyce Woods, Incidental Music Written and Conducted by: Jackie Brown, Solo Pianist: Dennis Wilson, Sound Recordist: Clifford Sandall
Cast (23)
Donald Wolfit (Colonel Charles Price), Robert Bray (Major Shane), Jane Griffiths (Vicki Toller), Anton Diffring (Joseph Brezina), Carl Jaffe (Professor Stefan Toller), Karel Stepanek (Friederich Suderman), Oscar Quitak (Thomas Rilke), Christopher Lee (Doctor Neumann), Frederick Schiller (Alfred Baum), Rupert Davies (Clinton, the butler), John Van Eyssen (Lieutenant Bob Grant), Dennis Edwards, Fletcher Lightfoot (man giving telegram to Sudermann), Marie Lightfoot, Bernard Quinn, John Herrington (Albert, Joseph's valet), George Herbert, Frederick Schrecker (man in Sudermann's office), Reginald Atkinson, Ann Greenland, Rex Montgomery, Colin Croft (Theodore Dehmel), Christopher Cooke