Lilli Marlene
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
- 5.6
- 1950
- Released
- 1h 14m
Lisa Daniely
Lilli Marlene
Hugh McDermott
Steve
Richard Murdoch
Flight Lieutenant Murdoch / Capt. Wimpole
Leslie Dwyer
Berry
Estelle Brody
Estelle
Cecil Brock
O'Riley
John Blythe
Holt
Stanley Baker
EvansBen Williams
Brownie
Russell Hunter
Scottie
Marcel Poncin
LestoqueJudith Warden
AuntieLawrence O'Madden
Col. WhartonStuart Lindsell
Major PhillipsOlaf Olsen
Nazi Officer
Irene Prador
Nurse SchmidtAud Johansen
Nurse Melke
Carl Jaffe
Propaganda ChiefPhilo Hauser
Fratzell
Richard Marner
SS Colonel
Peter Swanwick
Chief Interrogator
Walter Gotell
Director of PropagandaArthur Lawrence
LieberRufus Cruikshank
Sgt. BullBarbara Cummings
ShirleyNeil Tuson
Producer
Conrad Phillips
Security OfficerKenneth Cleveland
Security Officer
Michael Ward
WintertreeReleased
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Lisa Daniely is quite engaging as the eponymous character in this post-war homage to the sweethearts whose songs lifted many an heart during the hardships of WWII. She is working in a small North African bar that finds itself controlled by the British, the Nazis, then the British again - with both sides aware that she is the source of the legendary song, and with both equally aware of her enormous