Passport to Destiny


Passport to Destiny 1944 is a RKO Radio Pictures fantasy war film, starring Elsa Lanchester, in her only leading role, as an English cleaning woman who, believing herself invulnerable by being protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.

During an air raid, she is caught in the middle of the street with a delayaction bomb. One air raid warden tells her to run, another to lie down. She does the latter and survives the explosion, though she is helped to the shelter in a daze. As she recovers, she is convinced that her husbands Magic Eye charm has protected her. She asks a friend what she would do if she were totally invulnerable. Looking up to the street being bombed, her friend replies that she would go to Germany and give that Mr. Hitler what for. Ella leaves the shelter, unconcerned about the bombs exploding around her, as she sets out to do just that.Stowing away on a British merchant ship, Ella is discovered by the crew, who think having a woman aboard is bad luck subsequently, a German bomber sinks the ship. Ella reaches France in a lifeboat, where the other survivors are quickly captured by the Germans. Ella works her way across France and Germany, pretending to a deafmute cleaning woman. She shares a train compartment with German Captain Franz Von Weber Gordon Oliver. Franzs fiancees uncle, Frederick Walthers Lloyd Corrigan arrives, and she is asked to leave the compartment. Both men are members of the antiHitler German resistance. Walthers informs Franz that Grete Lenore Aubert, his fiancee, has been arrested. Franz is determined to rescue her. ........

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