''State Department: File 649'' is a 1949

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American film directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Peter Stewart"). The film is also known as ''Assignment in China'' in the United Kingdom.

Plot summary

Kenneth Seeley (William Lundigan), member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon (Virginia Bruce ), a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and they'll have to make a plan to escape.

Cast

Production

Filming started 15 September at Nassour Studios.

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