Background to Danger
66 %|Jul 3, 1943|Thriller, War
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Featured Crew
Jerry Wald
Producer
Jack L. Warner
Executive Producer
Jack Killifer
Editor
Friedrich Hollaender
Original Music Composer
Eric Ambler
Novel
Raoul Walsh
Director
W.R. Burnett
Screenplay
Tony Gaudio
Director of Photography
Cast
George Raft
Joe Barton
Brenda Marshall
Tamara Zaleshoff
Sydney Greenstreet
Colonel Robinson
Peter Lorre
Nikolai Zaleshoff
Osa Massen
Ana Remzi
Turhan Bey
Hassan
Willard Robertson
'Mac' McNamara
Kurt Katch
Mailler
Nino Bellini
Turkish Secretary
Eumenio Blanco
Syrian Vendor
John Bleifer
Secretary
Walter Bonn
German Officer
Dick Botiller
Plane Announcer
Jack Chefe
Elevator Operator
Pedro de Cordoba
Baba - Old Turk
Jean De Briac
Levantine Porter
Charles De Ravenne
Bellboy
Jack Deery
Man at Train Station
Jean Del Val
Clerk
William Edmunds
Waiter with Information
Fernanda Eliscu
Turkish Wife on Train
Demetris Emanuel
Turkish Official
Hassan Ezzat
Turkish Conductor
Curt Furburg
Franz Von Papen
Steven Geray
Ludwig Rader
Rudy Germane
Club Patron
Frederick Giermann
Attaché
Lisa Golm
German Daughter
Carl Harbaugh
Butler
Carl Harbord
Minor Role
Yeghishe Harout
Turkish Policeman
Ernst Hauessermann
Clerk
Charles Irwin
Hotchkins - English Traveler
Dave Kashner
Minor Role
James Khan
Train Caller
Manart Kippen
Ivan
Kurt Kreuger
Chauffeur
Charles La Torre
Moustaffa - Typesetter
Liparit
Wagon Driver
Jerry Mandy
Italian on Train
Lou Marcelle
Commentator
Michael Mark
Hotel Night Clerk
Georges Metaxa
L.V. Bastaki
Ray Miller
Chauffeur
Daniel Ocko
Igor Rashenko
Sylvia Opert
Nautch Dancer
Nestor Paiva
Koylan
John Piffle
Fat Turk on Train
Paul Porcasi
Customs Official with Joe
Frank Puglia
Syrian Vendor
Frank Reicher
Rudick - the Assasin
Otto Reichow
Mailler's Henchman
Georges Renavent
Customs Official with Ana
Antonio Samaniego
Policeman
Cosmo Sardo
Clerk
Irene Seidner
German Mother
Cap Somers
Chef
Tom Steele
Thug at Newspaper Office
Robert R. Stephenson
German
Rafael Alcayde
Turkish Husband on Train
Nick Thompson
Butler
John Van Eyck
Official
Juan Varro
Policeman
Wilhelm von Brincken
German Official
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
German Officer
Leo White
Whispering Agent
Fred Wolff
Reiger
William Yetter Sr.
Schneider - Mailler's Henchman
Alfred Zeisler
Attaché