Orders to Kill

Orders to Kill was a 1958 British wartime drama film. It starred Paul Massie, Eddie Albert and Lillian Gish. It was directed by Anthony Asquith based on a story by Donald C. Downes.

Arriving in France, Summers meets his contact, Leonie Irene Worth, a seamstress working for the Resistance. Leonie gives Summers more information about the man he is to assassinate. Upon meeting Marcel Lafitte Leslie French, the man he is to kill, Summers has second thoughts. Lafitte is a gentle henpecked husband, who dotes on his cat Mimieux. Summers begins to feel that the man may not be guilty.Summers runs back to Leonie who rebukes him for his foolish error in weakening his mission and returning to her, a dangerous combination. Leonie points out to Summers that he dropped hundreds of bombs on people while he was a pilot. Summers protests, as he understands the difference between killing a lot of people and one person up close. When I dropped bombas I wasnt there at the other end. Leonie apologizes for her curt behavior and explains to him that her son was killed in the War. ........

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