The Enemy General

75 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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]

Plot

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.

Cast

• Van Johnson as Captain Allan Lemaire
• Jean-Pierre Aumont as Lionel Durand
• Dany Carrel as Lisette
• John Van Dreelen as SS-Gruppenführer Ernest Bruger
• Françoise Prévost as Nicole
• Hubert Noël as Claude
• Jacques Marin as Marceau
• Gérard Landry as Navarre
• Edward Fleming as Sergeant Allen
• Paul Bonifas as Mayor
• Paul Muller as Major Zughoff

Novelization

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. ^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• The Enemy General at IMDb
• The Enemy General at the TCM Movie Database
• The Enemy General at AllMovie
• The Enemy General at the American Film Institute Catalog