Background to Danger

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Background To Danger, 1943.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Background To Danger, 1943.

A German plot to bring Turkey into the war against Russia already established, we meet George Raft (with schtick) as "Joe Barton," in Ankara, who meets Ana (Osa Massen) who is spooked by a thug (Daniel Ocko), early in Raoul Walsh's Background To Danger, 1943, from an Eric Ambler novel.

Goon Mailer (Kurt Katch) delivers American Joe (George Raft), a salesman who seems drawn to international intrigue, to Robinson (Sydney Greenstreet), whom we know to be a Nazi agent though he is posing here as a Turkish police official, for a talk about secret papers, in Raoul Walsh's Background To Danger, 1943.

Nicolai (Peter Lorre), with his more fetching sister Tamara (Brenda Marshall), first secretly dispatches Ivor (Daniel Ocko), then reveals to American Joe (George Raft) why he rescued him from a crew of bogus Turkish cops, in Background To Danger, 1943, from an Eric Ambler novel.

Chivalrous American Joe (George Raft) encounters trouble returning the papers he held for Ana (Osa Massen) to her Ankara hotel, whereupon Peter Lorre and Brenda Marshall make their first, not explained, appearances, director Raoul Walsh using very little dialogue, in Background To Danger, 1943.

George Raft falls headlong into espionage in wartime Turkey in Raoul Walsh's Background To Danger (1943).