Lisbon Story (1946 film)

Lisbon Story
Directed byPaul L. Stein
Screenplay byJack Whittingham
Based onplay with music The Lisbon Story by Harry Parr Davies and Harold Purcell[1]
Produced byLouis H. Jackson
CinematographyGerald Moss
Edited byDouglas Myers
Music byHans May
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 20 May 1946 (1946-05-20) (UK)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Lisbon Story is a 1946 British musical thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Walter Rilla and Austin Trevor.[2] It was based on the musical The Lisbon Story by Harold Purcell and Harry Parr Davies that ran at The Hippodrome in 1943.[3] The screenplay concerns a cabaret singer and a British intelligence officer who travel to Berlin to rescue an atomic scientist being held there.[4]

  1. ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "The Lisbon Story (1946) - Paul Stein - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  3. ^ The Lisbon Story, Guide to Musical Theatre
  4. ^ "Lisbon Story". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2014.