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A Tale of Five Cities (Original title)A Tale of Five Women (Alternative title)Fünf Mädschen Und Ein Mann (Alternative title)5 Städte - 5 Mädschen (Alternative title)
Date: 11 June 1951 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, Italy, France, Austria, Federal Republic of Germany

Director of British sequence: Montgomery Tully, Romolo Marcellini, Wolfgang Staudte, Emile-Edwin Reinert, Geza von Cziffra

Synopsis: A young English pilot with amnesia traces his life and finds he has been involved with a girl in five European cities - London, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Vienna. At the end he finds he is free to marry the American reporter who was his benefactor.

Genre:
Drama
Releases
Date: 1951Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 99 mins Length: 8887 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (38)
Production Company: Grand National Film Productions, Producer: Alexander Paal, Producer: M.J. Winson, Producer: hofer carl, Producer: Gyula Trebitsch, Producer: Paul Pantaleon, Production Manager: Charles Leeds, Assistant Director: Bob Asher, Assistant Director: Kenneth Rick, Continuity: Kathleen Sinnott, Script: Richard Llewllyn, Script: Piero Tellini, Script: Geza von Cziffra, Script: Günther Weisenborn, Script: Jacques Companeez, Original idea: Patrick Kirwan, Maurice J. Wilson, Photography: Gordon Lang, Photography: Giuseppe La Torre, Photography: Ludwig Berger, Photography: Friedl Behn-Grund, Photography: Robert Dormoy, Camera Operator: Ray Sturgess, Editor: Maurice Rootes, Art Director: Don Russell, Art Director: R. Renzo, Art Director: Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff, Art Director: Walter Kutz, Art Director: Jean d' Eaubonne, Wardrobe: Amy C. Binney, Make-up: R.M. Bonnor-moris, Hairdresser: Ivy Emmerton, Musical Director: Hans May
Cast (18)
Bonar Colleano (Bob Mitchell), Lana Morris (Delia), Barbara Kelly (Lesley), Anne Vernon (Jeannine), Eva Bartok (Katalin), Gina Lollobrigida (Maria), Karin Himbold (Charlotte), Geoffrey Sumner ("Wingco"), Lily Kahn (charlady), Philip Leaver (Italian official), Annette Poivre (Annette), Danny Green (Levinsky), Carl Jaffe (Charlotte's brother), Charles Irwin (London editor), Macdonald Park (New York editor), Arthur Gomez (carabinieri), Aletha Orr (matron), Andrew Irvine (Jimmy)