The Traitor (1957 film)

A former resistance fighter tries to discover the traitor who has betrayed his colleagues in the German resistance during the Second World War.

• Donald Wolfit as Colonel Charles Price
• Robert Bray as Major Shane
• Jane Griffiths as Vicki Toller
• Carl Jaffe as Professor Stefan Toller
• Anton Diffring as Joseph Brezina
• Christopher Lee as Doctor Neumann
• Oscar Quitak as Thomas Rilke
• Karel Štěpánek as Mayor Friederich Suderman
• Frederick Schiller as Alfred Baum
• Rupert Davies as Clinton, the butler
• John Van Eyssen as Lieutenant Bobby Grant
• Colin Croft as Theodore Dehmel

The film's title music, "Prelude Without A Name", and incidental music were written and conducted by Jackie Brown. The solo pianist was Dennis Wilson.

Sky Movieswrote, "The specially written musical piece, Prelude, which has a vital part to play in the plot's unfolding, is hauntingly appealing. But too much talk tends to spoil the script's surprises."[2] The Radio Times noted, "Nuance was not Donald Wolfit's strong suit, but he had presence and power in spades. He totally dominates this story with a bluster and conviction that keeps an uninspiring tale of the hunt for a Second World War traitor from falling flat on its face."[3] TV Guide concluded, "This is an offbeat espionage whodunit with some nervy moments."[4]

• On a very similar plot line, the French filmmaker Julien Duvivier directed in 1959 Marie-Octobre, also known as Secret Meeting, starring Danielle Darrieux and based on a novel by Jacques Robert published in 1948.

• Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. The British 'B' Film. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

• The Traitor at IMDb