British Agent

original title:
British Agent
other titles:
Brutal Agent
country / year of production:
USA / 1934
original length:
75 min. , black/white
premiere:
15 September 1934
genre:
adventure
based on:
Robert H. Lockhart. Memoirs of a British agent. Being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918. London: Putnam, 1932.

Sayers, Michael. The Plot against the Peace. A Warning to the Nation. New York : Dial Press, 1945.
director:
Michael Curtiz
film script:
R.H. Bruce Lockhart , Laird Doyle
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cast (role):
Leslie Howard , Kay Francis , William Dennis Gargan
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plot synopsis:
The film is based on the memories of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who was the inofficial British emissary to the Russian Revolutionary government in 1917. He has to stop the Bolsheviks from signing a treaty with the regime of World War I Germany. But the film shows more romantic scenes, than dealing with the beginning of Bolshevism.
keywords:
based on a true story , communism , espionage , informant , authenticity , women during wartime
war:
Russian Civil War (1917-1921)
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