Desperate Moment

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

as Simon Van Halder

Mai Zetterling

as Anna DeBurg

Philip Friend

as Capt. Bob Sawyer

Albert Lieven

as Paul Ravitch, alias Schleger

Fritz Wendhausen

as Warder Goeter

Carl Jaffe

as Cellblock Guard Becker

Gerard Heinz

as German Prison Doctor

Andre Mikhelson

as Polizei Inspector

Harold Ayer

as Capt. Trevor Wood, U.S. Army

Walter Gotell

as Ravitch's Servant-Henchman

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