The Enemy General | |
Director: | George Sherman |
Producer: | Sam Katzman |
Screenplay: | Dan Pepper Burt Picard |
Story: | Dan Pepper |
Starring: | Van Johnson Jean-Pierre Aumont Dany Carrel |
Music: | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
Cinematography: | Basil Emmott |
Editing: | Edwin H. Bryant Gordon Pilkington |
Studio: | Clover Productions |
Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
Runtime: | 75 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
The Enemy General is a 1960 American drama war film directed by George Sherman and starring Van Johnson.[1] [2]
The film was shot on location in Europe.[2]
The setting is World War II. An Office of Strategic Services agent, working with the French Resistance, ambushes a Nazi convoy with a high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.
A novelization of the screenplay was issued by Monarch Books in May 1960—about two months in advance of the film's release (as was often customary in the era). The by-line was given as "Dan Pepper & Max Gareth". Both names were pseudonyms. "Dan Pepper", also credited as co-screenwriter, was a joint pseudonym for Lou Morheim (who would become a noted screenwriter and producer under his own name) and American novelist Stuart James.