The Red Danube

A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

Cast

Walter Pidgeon

as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar

Ethel Barrymore

as Mother Superior ('Mother Auxilia')

Peter Lawford

as Major John 'Twingo' McPhimister

Angela Lansbury

as Audrey Quail

Janet Leigh

as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen

Louis Calhern

as Colonel Piniev

Francis L. Sullivan

as Colonel Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron

Melville Cooper

as Private David Moonlight

Robert Coote

as Brigadier C.M.V. Catlock

Alan Napier

as The General

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