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The film was based on an original story by Donald Downes. Downes was an important OSS officer involved in numerous operations during the war. He became a writer after the war. The novel Orders to Kill by Downes was published after the film was shot.
Mar 23, 2020 · American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance. Director: Anthony Asquith. Writers: Donald Downes (original story) (as Donald C. Downes), George St. George (adapted for the screen by) | 1 more credit ».
Orders to Kill (1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Donald Chase Downes Papers consist of correspondence, research and other topical files, personal papers, and writings which date primarily from Downes's life after he left the OSS. The files contain no more than scattered references to Downes's espionage work during World War II.
Donald Chase Downes, the son of Joseph Lodowick Downes and Effie Chase Downes was born on 30th September, 1903 in Catonsville, Maryland. He attended Kent School and Phillips Exeter College. He then continued his education at Yale College in 1926.
Donald Downes was born on 30 September 1903 in the USA. Donald was a writer, known for Orders to Kill (1958) and The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962). Donald died in March 1983 in Northridge, California, USA.
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The papers, which had been loaned to Robin Winks for his research in writing Cloak & Gown by Downes's sister-in-law Polly W. Downes, were received by the Manuscripts and Archives Department as the gift of Mrs. Downes in 1986. The files are arranged in alphabetical order by record type.
