Lisbon Story (1946 film)

Lisbon Story
Lisbon Story
Directed by	Paul L. Stein
Screenplay by	Jack Whittingham
Based on	play with music The Lisbon Story by Harry Parr Davies and Harold Purcell
Produced by	Louis H. Jackson
Cinematography	Gerald Moss
Edited by	Douglas Myers
Music by	Hans May
Production; company	British National Films
Distributed by	Anglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date	20 May 1946 (UK);
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Lisbon Story is a 1946 British musical thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Walter Rilla and Austin Trevor.^[2] It was based on the musical The Lisbon Story by Harold Purcell and Harry Parr Davies that ran at The Hippodrome in 1943.^[3] The screenplay concerns a cabaret singer and a British intelligence officer who travel to Berlin to rescue an atomic scientist being held there.^[4]

Cast

Patricia Burke as Gabrielle Girard
David Farrar as David Warren
Walter Rilla as Karl von Schriner
Lawrence O'Madden as Michael O'Rourke
Austin Trevor as Major Lutzen
Paul Bonifas as Stephan Corelle
Ralph Truman as Police Commissionaire
Joan Seton as Lisette
Harry Welchman as George Duncan
Martin Walker as Journalist
Noele Gordon as Panache
Esme Percy as Mariot
Allan Jeayes as Dr. Cartier
John Ruddock as Pierre Sargon
Uriel Porter as Joe
Richard Tauber made a cameo appearance, singing Pedro the Fisherman and other numbers.