Betrayed (1954 film)

Betrayed
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed byGottfried Reinhardt
Written byRonald Millar
George Froeschel
StarringClark Gable
Lana Turner
Victor Mature
Louis Calhern
Wilfrid Hyde-White
CinematographyFreddie Young
Edited byJohn D. Dunning
Raymond Poulton
Music byWalter Goehr
Bronislau Kaper
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • September 7, 1954 (1954-09-07)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.6 million[1]
Box office$4.1 million[1]

Betrayed is a 1954 American Eastmancolor war drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt and starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, and Louis Calhern. The screenplay was by Ronald Millar and George Froeschel. The musical score was by Walter Goehr and Bronislau Kaper, and the cinematography by Freddie Young. The picture, Gable's last for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was filmed on location in the Netherlands and England, and was based on the story of turncoat Dutch resistance leader Christiaan Lindemans, also known as "King Kong". The supporting cast features O. E. Hasse, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ian Carmichael, Niall MacGinnis, and Theodore Bikel. Betrayed was the fourth and final movie in which Gable played opposite Turner, and their third pairing set during World War II. (They played comrades, not simply lovers, in all three war films.)

Diana Coupland provided Turner's singing voice in the song "Johnny Come Home".

Betrayed was spoofed in the film Top Secret! (1984).[2]

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Crowther, Bosley (September 9, 1954). "'Betrayed,' War Story, Opens at the State". The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2019.