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  • ️Sat Jun 04 1949

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Mission in Tangier
Mission à Tanger
Directed byAndré Hunebelle
Written byMichel Audiard
Produced byAndré Hunebelle
StarringRaymond Rouleau
Gaby Sylvia
Mila Parély
CinematographyMarcel Grignon
Edited byJean Feyte
Music byJean Marion

Production
company

Production Artistique et Cinématographique

Distributed byUnion Française de Production Cinématographique

Release date

  • June 4, 1949

Running time

100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Mission in Tangier (French: Mission à Tanger) is a 1949 French spy thriller film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Raymond Rouleau, Gaby Sylvia and Mila Parély.[1] [2] It was the first in the trilogy of films featuring dashing reporter Georges Masse, and was followed in 1950 by Beware of Blondes. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. It has been described as a French film noir.[3]

During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.

  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Moine p.226
  3. ^ Spicer p.455
  • Moine, Raphaëlle. Cinema Genre. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
  • Spicer, Andrew. Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press, 2010.