''Tangier Assignment'' (Spanish: ''Billete para Tánger'') is a 1955 British-Spanish

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by César Fernández Ardavín and starring

Fernando Rey Fernando Casado Arambillet (20 September 1917 – 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for hi ...

, Bob Simmons and Gustavo Re.Chibnall & Murphy p.231 The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

Tomás Fernández.

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took place around

Tangier Tangier ( ; , , ) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The city is the capital city, capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Tangier-Assilah Prefecture of Moroc ...

in Morocco.

Synopsis

An agent goes undercover in

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

to investigate a

smuggling Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. More broadly, soc ...

ring, joining forces with a

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singer and local

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Cast

as Inspector * Bob Simmons as Peter Valentine * June Powell as Vicky * Bill Brandon as Willie * Ricardo Picazo as Baron * Gustavo Re as Schuman / Abdul * Zoraida as Dancer

References

Bibliography

* Chibnall, Steve & Murphy, Robert. ''British Crime Cinema''. Routledge, 2005. * Clinton, Franz Anthony. ''British Thrillers, 1950–1979: 845 Films of Suspense, Mystery, Murder and Espionage''. McFarland, 2020.

External links

* 1955 films 1955 crime films Spanish crime films British crime films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by César Fernández Ardavín 1950s British films 1950s Spanish films Films set in Tangier Films shot in Morocco {{1950s-Spain-film-stub