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Yellow Canary

Yellow Canary

Blonde and Beautiful...Despised and Hated!...

1943•1h 34m•5.3/10
DramaThrillerWar

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5.3/10(15)

In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.

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Production

Herbert Wilcox Productions, RKO Radio Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Anna Neagle

Anna Neagle

Sally Maitland

Richard Greene

Richard Greene

Lieutenant Commander Jim Garrick

Nova Pilbeam

Nova Pilbeam

Betty Maitland

Albert Lieven

Albert Lieven

Jan Orlock

Lucie Mannheim

Lucie Mannheim

Madame Orlock

George Thorpe

Colonel Charles Hargraves

Marjorie Fielding

Marjorie Fielding

Lady Maitland

Franklin Dyall

Franklin Dyall

Captain Foster

Margaret Rutherford

Margaret Rutherford

Mrs. Towcester

Claude Bailey

Major Fothergill

Valentine Dyall

Valentine Dyall

German Commander

Sybille Binder

Sybille Binder

Madame Orlock's Attendant

Cyril Fletcher

Cyril Fletcher

And Introducing Entertainer

Leslie Dwyer

Leslie Dwyer

Ship's Steward

Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

Observe Corpsman in Opening Scene

David Horne

David Horne

Admiral

Eliot Makeham

Eliot Makeham

Observer Corpsman in Opening Scene

Aubrey Mallalieu

Aubrey Mallalieu

Reynolds

Paul Dupuis

Paul Dupuis

Intelligence Officer

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