Miss Mend

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

Cast

Natalya Glan

as Vivian Mend, typist

Boris Barnet

as Barnet, reporter

Vladimir Fogel

as Fogel, photographer

Igor Ilyinsky

as Tom Hopkins, clerk

Sergei Komarov

as Chiche

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

as Arthur Storn / Engineer Johnson

Tatyana Mukhina

as Kolka, street child

Mikhail Rozen-Sanin

as Gordon Storn

Natalya Rozenel

as Elizabeth Storn

S. Gets

as Vivian's little nephew

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