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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. [6]
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 ».
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.
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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.
Like many mid-century war novelists, Downes saw it all firsthand. He was in the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the British Security Coordination (BSC), and the OSS (we don't need to decipher that one, right?), and saw action against the fascists in Italy and Egypt.
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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.
