The Man from Morocco | BFI | British Film Institute

Year: 1945

Production Country: Great Britain

Directed by Max Greene
Featuring Anton Walbrook / Margaretta Scott / Reginald Tate

Drama: A group of men who have spent two years in an internment camp are sent by the Vichy Government to build a railway in the Sahara. One escapes and returns to London to find his lover believes him to be dead and that she is being pursued by his deadliest enemy.

Cast & credits

Cast

Karel Langer Anton Walbrook
Manuela de Roya Margaretta Scott
Captain Ricardi Reginald Tate
Jock Peter Sinclair
Doctor Duboste David Horne
Colonel Bagley Hartley Power
Erna, false Duboste Sybilla Binder
Bourdille Charles Victor
Franz, the Austrian Josef Almas
Pete, the Canadian John Mclaren
Galzani Dennis Arundell
Mrs Morgan Margaret Emden
Pierre, a guard Jan Van Loewen
nurse Gwen Bateman
Colonel Appleby Stuart Lindsell
hotelier Marie Ault
Sarah Duboste Mary Morris
August Paul Demel
Carlos David Baxter
French mayor Paul Bonifas
Lieutenant Gerard Paul Sheridan
Treville Henry Morrell
French general André Randall
German general Carl Jaffe
Italian barber Roger Snowden
Russian Oreste Orloff
Spaniard Ereth Marshall
Jeremiah Orlando Martins
American sergeant Robert Arden
Ali Harold Berens
Julian Glyn Rowlands

Credits

Direction

Director Max Greene
[1st] Assistant Director Frank Hollands
[Assistant Director (2nd)] Gerry Mitchell
[Assistant Director (3rd)] Eric Pavitt
[Continuity] M. Rossier
[Assistant Continuity] J. Sheldrake

Production

Production Company Associated British Picture Corporation
Producer Warwick Ward
Unit Production Manager Laurie Lawrence
Studio Welwyn Studios

Writing

Screenplay Edward Dryhurst
Adaptation Warwick Ward
Additional Dialogue Marguerite Steen
From an original story by Rudolph Cartier

Photography

Director of Photography Basil Emmott
[Exterior Photography] Geoffrey Faithfull
[Exterior Photography] Ronnie Anscombe
Camera Austin Dempster
[Focus Puller] Manny Yospa
[Clapper Loader] M. Cohen

Stills

[Stills] G. Daley

Special Effects

[Special Processes] W. Percy Day

Editing

Editing Flora Newton
[Assistant Editor] P. Woods

Design

Art Director D.W.L. Daniels
Associate [Art Director] Charles Gilbert
[Draughtsman] F. Novak
[Draughtsman] Maurice Pelling

Costumes

Dress Designs Anna Duse

Make-up

Make-up Bob Clark

Music

Music Mischa Spoliansky
Lyrics, `Marching On For Freedom' Phil Park
Conductor Charles Williams

Sound

Sound Harry Benson
Sound Bert Ross
[Sound Camera Operator] Jimmy Davie
[Boom Operator] Ken Ritchie
[Dubbing Crew] Harry Benson
[Dubbing Crew] Stan Jolly
[Dubbing Crew] C. Holmes
[Dubbing Crew] Peter T. Davies