Gregory Peck in spy film, Berlin

Feb. 28 As soon as he appears on the set in Berlin, Gregory Peck is besieged by fans who want his autograph like these two pretty Berliners. Gregory Peck Stars In New American Film Made In Berlin: All exterior shots for the new 20th Century Fox film, Night People have been made in the streets of Berlin and the interiors will be shot later in the studios in Hollywood. The story of the film is highly topical based on the struggle between East and West Germany and id directed by Nunnally Johnson. A young G.I. (Ted Avery), is engaged to a German girl (Marianne Koch). Returning to the barracks one night in the Western Zone a stranger asks him for a light and the G.I. gives it, he is knocked out and smuggled away into the Eastern Zone in a car.The incident is seen by a German woman who tells the Military Police. The Provost Marshal, Lt. Col. Van Dyke (Gregory Peck) contacts the Soviet Military Government who claims ignorance of the incident. The G.I.'s father, (Broderick Crawford), a wealthy American businessman with influence in political circles, flies to Berlin and failing to get satisfaction through official channel contacts a member of the Underground in the Soviet sector (Anita Bjoerk) who says the G.I. will be released if a man and woman who have scaped from the Eastern zone are returned. Then this man, a former member of the East Zone Underground, hears of this he telephones Col. Van Dyke and tells him that Hoffy (the name of Anita Bjoerk in the film) is a counter spy and is really working for the Russians. Unfortunately Van Dyke has fallen in love with the beautiful Hoffy. By a clever ruse he gets the G.I. back without handing over the two Germans to the Soviets. The main scenes of the film were made on Kurfuerstendam at the small Border of Berlin

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