The Man Between

“Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!”

7.1(67)19531h 40m

Thriller

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

Director

Carol Reed

Cast

Claire Bloom

Suzanne Mallison

James Mason

Ivo Kern

Hildegard Knef

Bettina

Geoffrey Toone

Martin Mallison

Hilde Sessak

Lizzi

Aribert Wäscher

Halendar

Ernst Schröder

Olaf Kastner

Dieter Krause

Horst

Karl John

Inspector Kleiber

Ljuba Welitsch

Opera singer

Reinhard Kolldehoff

Kolldehoff EaEasstern German Police Officer commanding the hunt for Ivo Kern and Susanne Mallison (uncredited)

Frederick Schiller

Construction Worker on Generator (uncredited)

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1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

Very much in the vein of Carol Reed's similar cold war thriller "The Third Man" (1949), this is a gritty and characterful story set in Berlin just before the Soviet Union imposed travel restrictions. This time, the Communists kidnap "Susanne" (Claire Bloom) - she happens to be the sister of British officer "Martin" (Geoffrey Toone) and we are now presented with an intriguing and internecine series...