ID

FBW001271      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1944

Original Title

Passport to Destiny/ Passport to Adventure

Directed by

Ray McCarey

Produced by

RKO (Radio Keith Orpheum) Radio Pictures, Inc., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Herman Schlom; Script: Val Burton, Muriel Roy Bolton; Camera: Jack MacKenzie; Editing: Robert Swink; Art direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey; Special Effects: Vernon L. Walker; Costumes: Edward Stevenson; Musical arrangements: Roy Webb

Cast

Elsa Lanchester (Ella); Gordon Olivier (Franz); Lenore Aubert (Grete); Lionel Royce (Dietrich); Fritz Feld (Hausmeister); Joseph Vitale (Lt. Bosch); Gavin Muir (Lord Haw Haw); Lloyd Corrigan (Prof. Walthers); Anita Sharp Bolster (Agnes); Lydia Bilbrook (Millie); Lumsden Hare (Captain); Hans Schumm (Prison Warden)

Length

65'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

Ella is the widow of a British officer during WWII who decides to travel to Berlin to kill Hitler. She travels through France, and then makes her way into Germany as a deaf-mute, obtaining a job as a cleaning lady at the chancellery in Berlin. Ella never gets her chance at the dictator, but she does cause a lot of problems for the German staff.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); Berlin; Germany (1933-1945); France; World War II

Bibliography

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