ID

FBW000975      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1943

Original Title

Chetniks / Chetniks - The Fighting Guerillas

Directed by

Louis King

Produced by

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; Script: Jack Andrews, Edward E. Paramore; Based on: Jack Andrews (Novel); Camera: Glen MacWilliams; Editing: Alfred Day; Music: Emil Newman; Musical arrangements: Hugo Friedhofer

Cast

Philip Dorn (Gen. Draja Mihailovitch); Anna Sten (Lubitca Mihailovitch); Shepperd Strudwick (als John Shepperd) (Alexis); Virginia Gilmore (Natalia); Martin Kosleck (Col. Brockner); Felix Basch (Gen. Von Bauer); Frank Lackteen (Maj. Danilov); Patricia Prest (als: Pat Prest) (Nada); Merrill Rodin (Mirko); LeRoy Mason (Capt. Sava)

Length

73'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

Yugoslav partisans led by Gen. Draja Mihailovitch battle their Nazi occupiers. Gestapo agent Col. Brockner learns the identity of Gen. Mihailovitch's wife and uses her as bait to capture Gen. Mihailovitch. But Gen. Mihailovitch outwits them, capturing their stronghold and freeing her.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); Secret State Police; Yugoslavia; National Socialists

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987