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Vicky Barton
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| Dirk Bogarde | ... |
George Hathaway
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Johnny Barton
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Marcel Poncin | ... |
Narcisse
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| Cathleen Nesbitt | ... |
Madame Hervé
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| Honor Blackman | ... |
Rhoda O'Donovan
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Betty Warren | ... |
Mrs. O'Donovan
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| Zena Marshall | ... |
Nina
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| Eugene Deckers | ... |
Day Porter
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| Felix Aylmer | ... |
British Consul
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| André Morell | ... |
Doctor Hart
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| Austin Trevor | ... |
Police Commissaire
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Natasha Sokolova | ... |
Charlotte
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Nelly Arno | ... |
Madame Verni
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Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother. Written by DarkDan <[email protected]>
Nicely-acted film, particularly by a young Jean Simmons demonstrating the capabilities that made her such a well-known figure later in her acting career. What's probably not so well known about this picture is that it appears to be based on a real incident that supposedly occurred at the Paris Exposition in May of 1889. In the "real" incident (it's tough to find documentation of it), it is the girl's mother, not her brother, who goes missing, but the details are much the same as presented in the film. It's been awhile since I last saw this movie, but as I recall the film ending was quite different from the actual conclusion; in the latter situation, the young lady never found her mother and was eventually committed to an insane asylum in England. Or so the story goes. True story, or old, old urban legend? Either way, it lends a little bit of added dimension to this intriguing, fairly obscure movie.