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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

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In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in return for information on the Nazis. Erickson agrees to the plan and proceeds to make it look as if he is pro-Nazi. This subterfuge causes him to be branded a traitor, and his wife, believing Eric to be a

Jul 13, 2004

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Not good enough to be great, too grim to be enjoyable as a spy yarn.

September 13, 2004 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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Good spy thriller, Lilli Palmer is excellent.

March 30, 2008
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jay nixon

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An American living in Sweden gets called by the Brits to be an agent but by acting like a Nazi sympathizer. Well, although he does the deed, he loses friends and family behind it. But he DOES gain German allies who help in his plan. Good action flick.

September 8, 2007
thesavvybamalady
Nandi Crawford

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