The Adventures of Tartu

Release Date: 1943-10-01

Overview: British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.

Rating: 6.2 / 10

Cast

Robert Donat

as Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu

Valerie Hobson

as Maruschuka Lanova

Walter Rilla

as Inspector Otto Vogel

Glynis Johns

as Paula Palacek

Phyllis Morris

as Anna Palacek

Crew

Harold S. Bucquet - Director
John Lee Mahin - Screenplay
Howard Emmett Rogers - Screenplay
Louis Levy - Music Director
Jack E. Cox - Director of Photography

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

There were quite a few of these medium-budget films made - not quite as propaganda, but serving to bolster the morale in Britain in the depths of WWII. This is one of them. Robert Donat plays a fictio...