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The Two-Headed Spy

Year:

1959

Duration:

93 min

Genres:

Drama | Thriller | War

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

André De Toth

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1959-02-16

Cast

Actor

Character

Donald Pleasence

Jack Hawkins

Gen. Alex Schottland

Gia Scala

Lili Geyr

Erik Schumann

Lt. Reinisch

Alexander Knox

Gestapo Leader Müller

Felix Aylmer

Cornaz

Walter Hudd

Adm. Canaris

Edward Underdown

Kaltenbrunner

Laurence Naismith

Gen. Hauser

Geoffrey Bayldon

Dietz

Kenneth Griffith

Adolf Hitler

Robert Crewdson

1st Gestapo Agent

Michael Caine

Gestapo Agent

Harriette Johns

Karen Corscher

Martin Benson

Gen. Wagner

Victor Woolf

Pawnbroker

Richard Grey

Field Marshal Keitel

Ronald Hines

German Corporal

Martin Boddey

Gen. Optiz

Bernard Fox

Lieutenant

Deering Wells

Gen. Merkel

Nade Beall

Eva Fischer

Ian Colin

Col. Heitz

Peter Swanwick

Gen. Toppe

Desmond Roberts

Gen. Zeiss

Victor Fairley

Gen. Rupert

W. Thorp Deverreux

Gen. Kirche

Bart Allison

Orderly (uncredited)

John Brooking

Staff Officer (uncredited)

John Cabot

Innkeeper (uncredited)

John Dunbar

Doctor (uncredited)

Kenneth Earl

British Soldier (uncredited)

Grenville Eves

Colonel, Field Hospital (uncredited)

Dudley Foster

Gestapo Agent (uncredited)

Neil Hallett

Hitler's Guard (uncredited)

Edward Malin

Orderly (uncredited)

John McLaren

Bit Part (uncredited)

Martin Sterndale

Bit Part (uncredited)

Peter Welch

Gestapo Major (uncredited)

Sheree Winton

(uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

According to Denis Gifford in his article "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?" from the film history tome 'The Movie', this film was the first British film made after World War II to feature Adolph Hitler as a character.

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Goofs

Although the story is taking place in the years from 1939-1945, Gia Scala's clothes and hairstyles are strictly 1958, the year the film was made.

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Several transitional scenes (staff car traveling on the autobahn, refugees streaming through Berlin) are used more than once.

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When Gen. Schottland is in the forest trying to radio the allies, he is confronted by a soldier carrying a British Sten submachine gun. In the next scene it is revealed to be a German soldier and now he is carrying a German MP-40 submachine gun. In the next scene it switches back to a Sten.

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