Action ·Adventure ·Drama · United States of America · 1949 · 1h 27m

State Department: File 649

State Department: File 649 poster
Director
Sam Newfield
Cast
William Lundigan as Ken Virginia Bruce as Marge Jonathan Hale as Director-General Frank Ferguson as Consul Reither Richard Loo as Marshal Yun Usu Philip Ahn as Col. Aram
Crew
Jack Greenhalgh — Director of Photography Holbrook N. Todd — Editor Lucien Cailliet — Original Music Composer Milton Raison — Screenplay Sigmund Neufeld — Producer Rudy Harrington — Costume Design
Synopsis

Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw's headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.

Mood & Themes
warlordmongoliaoutlaw
Key Collaborators
Sam Newfield Director Jack Greenhalgh Director of Photography Holbrook N. Todd Editor Lucien Cailliet Original Music Composer Milton Raison Screenplay Sigmund Neufeld Producer Rudy Harrington Costume Design
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