The U.S. branch of Indicator/Powerhouse Films is preparing a Blu-ray release of Anthony Asquith's
Orders to Kill (1958), starring Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, and John Crawford. Currently, the release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 20.
Description: Starring Paul Massie (
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll), James Robertson Justice (
The Face of Fu Manchu), and Lillian Gish (
Intolerance),
Orders to Kill is a brilliant, bruising wartime espionage drama.
Based on a story by real-life spy Donald Downes, and co-scripted by another former spy, Paul Dehn (
The Deadly Affair, Fragment of Fear), Anthony Asquith's film follows an American airman sent into occupied France with orders to kill a suspected double agent… but the mission does not go according to plan.