Squadron Leader X

Squadron Leader X
Directed byLance Comfort
Written byMiles Malleson
Wolfgang Wilhelm
Emeric Pressburger
Based onstory "Four Days in a Hero's Life" by Emeric Pressburger
Produced byVictor Hanbury
StarringEric Portman
Ann Dvorak
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Edited byMichael C. Chorlton
Music byWilliam Alwyn (composer)
Muir Mathieson (conductor)
Production
company
Victor Hanbury Productions (for) RKO Radio British Productions
Distributed byRKO Radio British Productions
Release date
  • 1 March 1943 (1943-03-01) (U.K.)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Squadron Leader X is a 1943 British World War II spy drama directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak.[1] The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger.[2] Unfortunately, the BFI National Archive currently considered this film as "missing, believed lost".

  1. ^ Pendo 1985, p. 163.
  2. ^ "Review: 'Squadron Leader X' complete short story by Emeric Pressburger." powell-pressburger.org, 2019. Retrieved: 22 August 2010.