State Department: File 649 Explained

State Department: File 649
Director:Sam Newfield
Producer:Sigmund Neufeld
Starring:William Lundigan
Virginia Bruce
Jonathan Hale
Music:Lucien Cailliet
Cinematography:Jack Greenhalgh
Editing:Holbrook N. Todd
Distributor:Film Classics, Inc
Runtime:87 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English
Budget:$750,000[1]

State Department: File 649 is a 1949 American Cinecolor film noir directed by Sam Newfield and starring William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce and Jonathan Hale. The film is also known as Assignment in China in the United Kingdom.

Plot

Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and they'll have to make a plan to escape.

Production

Filming started 15 September at Nassour Studios.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: Schallert, E.. 7 September 1948. Jackson saga of crime purchased by rossen; 'file 649' stars picked. Los Angeles Times. .