Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
Yossi Yadin
- Sgt. Vassilij Voroshenko
- (as Yoseph Yadin)
Albert Dinan
- Sgt. Marcel Pasture
- (as Dinan)
Gregori Chmara
- Russian kommissar
- (uncredited)
Geraldine Katt
- Steffi - Harry's girlfriend
- (uncredited)
François Simon
- French policeman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSoviet authorities, who felt insulted by the way the USSR is depicted in the story, protested against the release of the film in April 1951.
- Alternate versionsThe French-language sequences in the film, largely involving scenes in the Pasture household during Fraziska's stay, were edited out of the American release prints, leaving only the principal English-language material.
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Four in a Jeep
When "Karl" (Hans Putz) manages to escape from a Soviet prison in post-war Vienna, it falls to the four occupying powers to work together to re-apprehend him. This task ought to be a fairly routine one for them. Briton "Stuart" (Michael Medwin), American "Long" (Ralph Meeker), Frenchman "Pasture" (Albert Dinan) and the Soviet "Voroshenko" (Yossi Yadin) make up a group that regularly patrol the city in their jeep and know their way around. It's also quite astonishing, in their Babel-esque linguistic maelstrom, that these men can hope to accomplish anything at all but they are soon on the trail of this man and his wife "Franziska" (Viveca Lindfors). Quite quickly, they begin to realise that "Karl" is no danger to anyone and that his imprisonment isn't exactly just. Three decide to help him instead but their problem is that "Voroshenko" isn't convinced. He has much less latitude than his cohorts and it soon proves a much more delicate, even dangerous, mission for him. Can they manage to re-unite this couple in freedom? This starts off as quite an effective illustration of the loose confederation of warring tribes scenario that prevailed after the Nazi defeat, but as the characterisations develop it becomes a little meandering and undercooked and the appearance of the rather wooden Lindfors doesn't really help much. The narrative starts to become more of an anti-Russian propaganda exercise and sadly rather predicable thereafter. There is some potent imagery - especially as the beleaguered refugees arrive home at the railway station to an awaiting crowd of hopeful relatives, but the use of each other's language, though useful at the start, starts to grate after an hour. It's an interesting concept and the actors do an adequate enough job, but it becomes just all a little too messy and black and white for me.
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- Štirje v džipu
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- CHF 2,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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