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Every second throbs with suspense and excitement!
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Assignment in Brittany
1943 Directed by Jack Conway
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Jean-Pierre Aumont Susan Peters Margaret Wycherly Signe Hasso Richard Whorf George Coulouris John Emery Darryl Hickman Sarah Padden Adia Kuznetzoff Reginald Owen Miles Mander Alan Napier Odette Myrtil Juanita Quigley William Edmunds George Brest George Travell Paul Leyssac Lucien Prival Rex Williams Lionel Royce Francis X. Bushman Jr. Horace B. Carpenter John Burton Leyland Hodgson
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Alternative Titles
Encontro com o Perigo, Un commando en Bretagne
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11 Mar 1943
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Still my favorite Jean-Pierre Aumont performance! He’s so charismatic and winning and heroic in this role. And his character is a doppelgänger posing as his counterpart which is just so darn interesting, especially because since only he gives himself away by being too kind. Meanwhile, Susan Peters lends her sweet, rather naïve character an innate intelligence that puts her in a tier above the average love interest. I just adore this brisk little film and I’m so happy I bought the Warner Archive DVD to watch whenever my heart desires!
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I thought maybe I had seen this before, but I’d have remembered Jean-Pierre Aumont’s performance or his excellent hair! And genuinely, one of the best upper-tier B movies that I’ve seen in a while. The story moves along well and maintains a tension that Helen MacInnes’ novel could never quite muster. Hope I get the chance to see this again at some point!
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There's a fair few of these 'imposter spy' thrillers, so many that I've probably watched more of them than I realise even though many of them are the same.
I don't think that sentence makes any sense but there you have it.
Assignment in Brittany isn't much different from most but at least it does put some effort into its story and does have a different perspective, focusing on French resistance. Jean-Pierre Aumont is really good in the lead - he did a decent number of English language roles in his career but this is one of his strongest, regardless of language.
Here he plays the imposter, a role complicated by two love interests, a suspicious 'mum' and the fact…
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Good lord that was satisfying. In a world that seems increasingly out of control, with rampant newly fortified racism in my country (USA) and global fascism on the rise (and that really is just the tip of a long list of terrible troubles today), it just feels right to watch some Nazis get wiped out.* And in style! This is a snappy little WWII B-movie that packs a lot of punch. I also admit to now having a huge crush on Pierre (aka Jean-Pierre) Aumont. Mon dieu!
*Yes, yes, I know this is hypocritical, and not pacific or spiritual at all (I do apologize to Buddhists everywhere, really). I concur. Just give me my moment of glee, okay? Sigh. -
Honorable espionage story starring French star Jean-Pierre Aumont during his brief war-time Hollywood stint. He comes out of this film with his dignity intact. While the film is solid, it lacks flair and the gruesome Nazi tactics comes across more as routine than emotional. But if you love old World War II movies, this is a good pick.
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in the middle of a thoroughly-mediocre-spy-films marathon this one was such a breath of fresh air, i thought it was so neat. always love the identity shenanigans involved in impersonating your doppelganger -- the way pierre's relationship develops with his not-mother is great, and that scene where he goes and pumps the poor heartbroken girl who loves him for info on where he might have been meeting his paramour? amazing! crunchy, delicious, dreadful emotional tension! i gasped and fluttered my hand over my chest when i realised what he was doing. i had to rewatch the ending because i zoned out embarrassingly fast at the first sign of explosions but on second sight it was well done, they did a good job. signe hasso was very good as a collaborator and jean-pierre aumont is a new name to me but i shall be keeping an eye out for him in the future