State Department: File 649

Directed by	Sam Newfield
Written by	Milton Raison
Produced by	Sigmund Neufeld
Starring	William Lundigan Virginia Bruce Jonathan Hale
Cinematography	Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by	Holbrook N. Todd
Music by	Lucien Cailliet
Distributed by	Film Classics, Inc
Release date	11 February 1949
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$750,000^[1]

State Department: File 649 is a 1949 American Cinecolor film noir directed by Sam Newfield and starring William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce and Jonathan Hale. The film is also known as Assignment in China in the United Kingdom.

Plot

Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, 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

William Lundigan as Kenneth R. Seeley
Virginia Bruce as Margaret 'Marge' Weldon
Jonathan Hale as Director General of Foreign Service
Frank Ferguson as Consul-General Reither
Richard Loo as Marshal Yun Usu
Philip Ahn as Col. Aram
Raymond Bond as Consul Howard Brown
Milton Kibbee as Bill Sneed, white trader
Victor Sen Yung as Johnny Hon, houseboy
Lora Lee Michel as Jessica Morse
John Holland as Wilfred Ballinger
Harlan Warde as Rev. Dr. Morse
Carole Donne as Mrs. Sarah Morse
Barbara Woodell as Carrie Willoughby, pianist
Lee Bennett as Agent Don Logan
Robert Stevenson as Mongolian Spy
H.T. Tsiang as Mayor Wan-too
Joseph Crehan as Junior Official
Ray Bennett as Fur Trader
Nana Bryant as Mrs. Peggy Brown

Production

Filming started 15 September at Nassour Studios.^[1]

External links

References

^ ^a ^b Schallert, E. (7 September 1948). "Jackson saga of crime purchased by rossen; 'file 649' stars picked". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 165889423.

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