''I Deal in Danger'' is a 1966 American

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spy film compiled from the first four episodes of a television series, ''

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'', which aired on ABC-TV in early 1966. Directed by

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, it starred

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as David March, an Allied spy in Nazi Germany during World War II. He is aided by a French agent, Susanne Duchard, played by

Christine Carère Christine Carère (27 July 1930 – 13 December 2008), born Christine de Borde, was a French film actress who co-starred in the 1966 American television series ''Blue Light''. Biography Born in Dijon, France, in 1930, Carère appeared in 25 ...

Plot

In Nazi Germany during World War II, David March (

) is an American traitor who has been given wide access to travel as he wishes within Germany. Unbeknownst to the Germans, March is actually an American spy, the last remaining from a spy ring, known as Blue Light. As time goes on, he has been able to work his way higher and higher within the Nazi intelligence apparatus, however he is suspected by a Nazi Gestapo officer, Captain Elm (

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). Along the way, he meets Susanne Duchard (

), a French agent, who he has a romantic interlude with, and persuades her to help him. Elm fosters a plan to expose March by taking him to Spain to meet with a British scientist, Guy Spauling (

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), who wants to defect to Germany. Elm knows that Spauling is a British agent. Spauling asks March to kill him, in order to validate March's standing with the Gestapo, but March instead uses the opportunity to frame Elm as the Blue Light agent, and kills him. March's goal becomes the destruction of secret Nazi weapons factory, which produces missiles for U-boats. He has romantic interludes with a German scientist, Gretchen Hoffmann ( Eva Pflug), working at the missile factory, convincing her to assist in his plans to blow up the facility. March and Duchard escape the destruction of the plant, but Hoffman dies in the explosion.

Cast

The cast list, according to

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: *

as David March *

as Suzanne Duchard *

as Spauling * Horst Frank as Luber *

as Elm * Eva Pflug as Gretchen Hoffmann * Christiane Schmidtmer as Ericka von Lindendorf *

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as Von Lindendorf * Hans Reiser as Richter *

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as The Baroness *

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as Eckhardt * Osman Ragheb as Brunner * John Alderson as Gorleck *

Dieter Eppler Dieter Eppler (11 February 1927, in Stuttgart – 12 April 2008, in Stuttgart) was a German television actor and director of radio dramas. He was an actor, known for ''Jonas'' (1957), ''The Country Doctor'' (1987) and '' The Last Winter'' (1960). He ...

as Stolnitz * Dieter Kirchlechner as Becker * Manfred Andrea as Dr. Zimmer *

Alexander Allerson Alexander Allerson is a German film and television actor.Watson p.299 Partial filmography * '' Man and Beast'' (1963), as SS-Man Goldap * '' Encounter in Salzburg'' (1964), as Mahlke * ''The Upper Hand'' (1966) * ''The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnigh ...

as Draus * Paul Glawion as the submarine pilot

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