The Man from Morocco * (1945, Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, Mary Morris) – Classic Movie Review 13,552

The 1945 British action adventure film The Man from Morocco is based on a story by Rudolph Cartier, and stars Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott and Mary Morris.

Director Max Greene’s 1945 British action adventure film The Man from Morocco is based on a story by Rudolph Cartier, and stars Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, and Mary Morris, along with Reginald Tate, Peter Sinclair, David Horne, Hartley Power, Charles Victor, and Sybille Binder.

World War Two International Brigade personnel are seized in France by the Vichy Government and shipped out to build the Nazis’ Sahara railroad, but their Czech leader Karel Langer (Anton Walbrook) manages to escape and deliver secrets to London.

The Man from Morocco is full of aspects of interest, but it is a quite unpersuasively handled wartime story, with a lack of focus in the script and little pace or suspense. The normally reliable and exciting star Anton Walbrook seems rather uncomfortable in his role as Karel Langer, in a performance that is too low key to excite.

The script is by Warwick Ward (adaptation), Edward Dryhurst (screenplay), Marguerite Steen [Margaret Steen] (additional dialogue), and Rudolph Cartier (story).

Max Greene was really German film cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum  (3 February 1896 – 5 July 1968) who had moved to England.

Austrian actor Anton Walbrook was born in Vienna as Adolf Anton Wohlbrück (19 November 1896 – 9 August 1967). He left Germany in 1936 for his own safety and established a career in British cinema. He made The Man from Morocco between his best known roles in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and The Red Shoes. He is buried with his partner Eugene Edwards, a London florist, in the churchyard of St John’s Church, Hampstead, London. 

The film was made by Associated British Picture Corporation at their Welwyn Studios in Hertfordshire.

The cast are Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, Mary Morris, Reginald Tate, Peter Sinclair, David Horne, Hartley Power, Charles Victor, Sybille Binder [Sybilla Binder], Josef Almas [Joseph Almas], John McLaren, Dennis Arundell, André Randall, Carl Jaffe, Paul Demel, David Baxter, Orlando Martins, Paul Sheridan, Stuart Lindsel, Gwen Bateman, Roger Snowden, Marie Ault, Paul Bonifas, Peter Noble, Harold Berens, and Glyn Rowland.

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