Spy Hunt 1950 Howard Duff & Marta Toren

During the Cold War, a microfilm concealed in the collar of a panther, transported by freight rail, is sought by several spies after the animal escapes its cage following the train's derailment in Switzerland.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

The best Swiss microfilm panther spy movie EVER!

[@tomdooley4226]

But ... But, have you seen them all? 😊

[@stevecharman8420]

A fabulous film which I've never seen before. What a tragedy that Marta Toren didn't make more movies. An extraordinary talent snuffed out at such a young age.

[@charliewest1221]

Howard Duff and Marta Toren are worthy stars in a plot that skates on thin ice.

[@peterhays7914]

Has anyone else noticed that the music is the same used as the intro to the Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone .

[@cattymajiv]

And it's the same as the intro music to Outside The Wall, with Richard Basehart, by the same company, which I just saw on KZbin. Identical music.

[@fwdixon04]

The first thing I noticed

[@scottyskills8168]

unmistakable

[@carlnotkarl]

Universal recycled their music library in an enormous variety of films. It seems that nearly every movie they made in the '40's has the same music. Especially, but definitely not limited to, their black and white horror movies.

[@Jean-rg4sp]

*This was a better movie than many of the period because of the isolated setting with several interesting characters and good script. The print was sharp and the photography was excellent. One fault was the intrusive music in places. It was fine thriller with action.*

[@90FF1]

Love these spy v.s. spy films. The animals did a fine job too. Thanks DK

[@dkclassics]

No problem

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

😢yes Panthers stuck in small cages is so sweet...😢😢😢

[@thatguyinelnorte]

@@johnathandaviddunster38 But only if you don't overdo the BBQ sauce...

[@spek2554]

Best plot and photography i have seen in a long time

[@tomalexander4327]

Walter Slezak's presence is always a reassuring sign of quality in any film.

[@onestarabove7027]

Great footage of the panthers. A good movie with a good plot.

[@ernestkovach3305]

The best actors in this movie are the 2 terrifying black panthers.

[@tomdooley4226]

Thanks for an interesting and entertaining movie. Great plot and great actors! 🎦

[@bizzybee852]

Another good old movie. Love the addition of the panthers with out a lot of fake stuffed animal cut ins. Thank you I enjoyed this movie.

[@laankebygg3685]

I am a dog lover. I always have been and always will be. I know this is only a movie, but I must say that I felt for the two hunted panthers. Lovely animals in the wild where they should be.

[@user-tb7nv7hj8k]

Yes, there must have been a way to retrieve the microfilm without destroying the cats.

[@challanger275]

Sad that

[@cattymajiv]

@@user-tb7nv7hj8k It's a movie. There was no microfilm. And there was no need to hurt any animals to film these scenes. I know in 1950 they were nowhere near as careful as they are now to avoid hurting animals, but since there was no need to hurt them, I'm sure it wasn't done. I saw another movie here on YT where some commentors were freaking out about a goose they thought had been killed, and saying they refused to finish watching the show because of it. The pretend-killing was done off screen of course. I thought to myself "How ridiculous they are!" because why would the director have a goose killed when it's not even part of the script?! But I'm not classing you with those people. There are a few people in every group who take whatever their goal is to incredible extremes, but that's only a few random nuts.

[@cattymajiv]

@@challanger275 It's a movie. There was no microfilm. And there was no need to hurt any animals to film these scenes. I know in 1950 they were nowhere near as careful as they are now to avoid hurting animals, but since there was no need to hurt them, I'm sure it wasn't done. I saw another movie here on YT where some commentors were freaking out about a goose they thought had been killed, and saying they refused to finish watching the show because of it. The pretend-killing was done off screen of course. I thought to myself "How ridiculous they are!" because why would the director have a goose killed when it's not even part of the script?! But I'm not classing you with those people. There are a few people in every group who take whatever their goal is to incredible extremes, but that's only a few random nuts.

[@90FF1]

Funny that we all don't feel the same way about killing humans in movies.

[@alecwilliams7111]

Tyhere are a lot of little films from the 1940's and 1950's that out perform the big ones. This is one example.

[@alanfaulkner6329]

Enjoyed the film but clearly the most ridiculous place to hide something ever conceived in the history of espionage.

[@user-tb7nv7hj8k]

Would you try to remove the collar of a living panther?

[@jimclark6256]

You just puthim to sleep temporarily.@@user-tb7nv7hj8k

[@cathyf.2672]

That's why one was drugged and both shot. Such a ridiculously bad hiding place.@@user-tb7nv7hj8k

[@ernestkovach3305]

Disagree.

[@bretstanley8931]

Nice little movie, great atmosphere, interesting twist in the end! Poor Marta Toren died so young of a brain hemorrhage. Thanks for posting!

[@OEllsworth]

Märta Torén (the correct spelling) was only 31 when she died. My father's mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 39 (in 1909). That was not so uncommon in those days.

[@redblade8160]

@@OEllsworth Why was it uncommon for people to get a burst blood vessel in the brain in those times?

[@OEllsworth]

Read my comment again. I said it was NOT uncommon.@@redblade8160

[@cattymajiv]

@@redblade8160 Two negatives = a positive, so what that person actually said is that it is common. But why they think it's was common I couldn't say. I suspect they are wrong. A few people now are saved that would not have been saved in the 1950s, but as far as I know, cerebral aneurysms have always been somewhat rare. If they are not treated VERY quickly the person usually dies, even today.

[@redblade8160]

@@cattymajiv This is why I always walk around carrying a doctor on my back in case of an odd emergency; we should all do this!

[@mikemarley2389]

Black panther is actually a leopard with black pigmentation.They carry the spots but they are black and hard to see unless up close.

[@user-tb7nv7hj8k]

Just don't get too close.

[@OEllsworth]

Yes, "panther" comes from the Latin "panthera," which simply means "leopard," and that comes from the Greek "panther." For some reason, the Anglicized "panther" has been restricted to mean a "black leopard." Today, the scientific genus "panthera" has an even wider meaning and includes all large members of the cat family (leopards: "P. pardus," jaguars: "P. onca," tigers: "P tigris," and lions: "P. leo." ("Black Panther" also has another meaning, of course, but that would be off topic.)

[@redblade8160]

Those are black panthers in the film. If they were leopards, then the spots would reveal themselves around the skull area, where the hairs are thin.

[@redblade8160]

@@OEllsworth You forgot to mention the Pink Panther. He's a special breed of panther that walks and skips upright on his hindlegs!

[@noneyabizniss1765]

I never knew that, until I saw one at a shopping mall (of all places!) Because of the strong lighting, I could clearly see the spots. That was pretty interesting. The sad part about that encounter was that the panther looked like it was doped up or something. Made me sick to see that.

[@1LSWilliam]

The panthers steal the show. They are gorgeous.

[@davidholder3207]

The panther/dog hunting scenes were interesting. The two final villains were a surprise.

[@Jean-rg4sp]

They never fooled me. I just go by an upper middle class English accent. The two protagonists in contrast were American and Swiss.

[@Anti-Fake-ul9oe]

@@Jean-rg4sp" upper middle class English accent"😂

[@abhijitmukherjee720]

Unique story plot, excellent role played by everyone ❤

[@Jean-rg4sp]

Not all that unique, surely since they were all after the mcguffin.

[@mishrakaushik1]

Now in the hotel in Switzerland we have a doctor who is also the owner, then comes a journalist, then comes a renowned hunter and we have a cop too. And an artist/painter.

[@jasong428]

Howard Duff was too much of a man for today's world. Great movie.

[@sophyrose5797]

Thank you so much.

[@tubespring]

Very fine movie and acting! Enjoyed having a woman being the heroine instead of a man as the hero!

[@catchaser52]

My kind of movie. I give it a 10.

[@lindapepper1067]

Brilliant script brilliantly acted.

[@johnspaulding1681]

nice cat and mouse flick...or in this case,dog and panther....excellent cast

[@brockbeckstedt6483]

Fantastic great acting the writing of the plot was most intriguing story Howard Duff was splendid and his costar she was was very credible thanks for posting they sure don't write them like that anymore it sure had me on the edge of my seat so far an hour and 20 plus minutes I was able to forget the nightmare I'm living in thanks for the escape of reality please post more. How does one post old movies my guest is that one is bought and uploaded to KZbin?

[@SuziQ.]

Basically, yes, but there are other ways to do it. You can borrow a movie from a library, and upload it, if it’s on disc.

[@leifpettsson]

Great picture, and Marta and Howard did a great job here

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Characterisation was good. Enjoyable espionage movie!

[@peter4Flags]

Enjoyable thank you very much.

[@jamespetersen3933]

You're cute!!!😊 Thanks for the show.❤

[@grimtt]

Thanks DK for not covering up the credits at the end of the film. Interesting that the spy plot wasn’t politicized, that is the we’re never told to what country or persuasion the bad spies belong to. Unusual for a post-war film of the atomic era. Love it when Sam Spade KO’s Sherlock Holmes 😂. Plot points don’t fully connect up but maybe necessary portions or the film ended up on the cutting room floor.

[@nickmad887]

Thank you.

[@mishrakaushik1]

I like the setting of a hotel in Switzerland. I will never land outside my country, watching Switzerland in a movie feels great.

[@Jean-rg4sp]

Wasn't it a Hollywood set?

[@mishrakaushik1]

@@Jean-rg4sp yes it is, that is why i used the word setting. The hollywood set of the movie looks real Switzerland.

[@mishrakaushik1]

@@Jean-rg4sp hi jean you are from which country?

[@Jean-rg4sp]

@@mishrakaushik1 okay

[@Jean-rg4sp]

@@mishrakaushik1 I live in Spain.

[@all4senna]

18 min into the movie, and I love this one. As usual, thank you DKC! Awesome brother.

[@rosamercadorivera6291]

Love classic cars,movies, cartoons days of my childhood years, black and white television 📺 sets .You buy a color film paper tape it to .The television 📺 and Bada bing Bada boom 💥 color movies,cartoons it was. I was 7. I am 63

[@user-tb7nv7hj8k]

I remember but I can't think of the name of the show. You could draw on the film, such as when the hero needed to cross a gap. Just draw a log, bridge or whatever and watch him walk across the gap.

[@SuziQ.]

One of my great aunts had a rainbow film on her tv. It looked ridiculous. It just layered a rainbow over everything.

[@ralphsanchico2452]

Even if these were circus Panthers I would still be nervous about them running around like that! But I guess they knew what they were doing!

[@GM-cf6jv]

Always like old movies. Liked the scenery but the plot was about as ridiculous as it gets. I think the film in the cigarette was a pretty good ending to transporting it to British intel unless she smoked it by accident which also would have made a great ending, but really a panther collar, nice kitty let me grab your collar😂

[@sharegreats2157]

Once in a while rumours come up in Switzerland were black panthers with long tails and terrifying dogs, cats, cows and sheep - and even human beings. Now I understand where those rumours come from.

[@mishrakaushik1]

29:09 all the characters are colorful. The hotel owner, the foreign correspondent, the hunter, the cop and the artist. All of them have command over language and intellect.

[@redblade8160]

@mishrakaushik1 It looked black and white to me!

[@Jean-rg4sp]

Nowadays it would be necessary to have more women actors, perhaps as the doctor/innkeeper and the captain of the Swiss army.

[@mishrakaushik1]

@@Jean-rg4spprobably yes i agree

[@alfredcerwensky7646]

Still I watched it. Good old story...

[@elizabethfitgerald9775]

Whats no one is apparantly, unaware is that is micro film was so tiny. That today they can put thousands of chips on the head of the match head. Tiny computers.

[@tomweickmann6414]

I'm not afraid of the computers. I'm afraid of the software.

[@djsi38t]

An enjoyable film,classic spy vs spy..

[@nataliatch5976]

Those panthers are so beautiful and a plot is quite unique for the spy movies. One question-Couldn’t they find better place for hiding their secret film?

[@redblade8160]

@nataliatch5976. I agree. A much better place to hide the micro-film would have been inside one of the fangs inside the panther's mouth.

[@francisconsole3892]

Marta......sweetheart

[@5guilty]

That's the intro music to Sherlock Holmes.

[@toro5338]

Interesting film.

[@JB-ie9hj]

Opening music similar to Sherlock Holmes theme .

[@andrewfrankovic6821]

Similar iF not exactly the same.

[@michaelhewitt258]

Ahh The fifty's When Women Wore dresses Even out hunting in the woods

[@kimwilliams722]

An excellent movie no prophanity

[@johnmehaffey9953]

I hear the music and think I’m getting a viewing of good old Sherlock,ps is that Sam spade from the radio series

[@elizabethfitgerald9775]

ABSOLUTELY.

[@SuziQ.]

According to TCM, the panthers were played by mountain lions, Baby and Cougar, who were dyed black for the film.

[@thehumancanary131]

No animals were hurt in this film (apart from a couple of black panthers)....

[@tiredlawdog]

The Swiss Capt. looked awfully familiar. He was the German piolet in Sahara with Humphrey Bogart.

[@fuzzfacelogic789]

Steve was right, she was cute! I hadn't ever known, or seen her before. Apart from that, opening scenes started with promise, but descended from there into an odd plot.

[@challanger275]

Great movie most of the cast played Nazis or or heroes or collaborators in movies

[@cathyf.2672]

Spoiler Alert!!! Movie depicts beautiful 2 panthers hunted and killed, instead of tranquilized or trapped. Good plot and acting, but sad to see the careless attitude people had for these majestic big cats in the 1950's.

[@OEllsworth]

Animal tranquilizers were not available until 1959. Trapping was an alternative method, however.

[@winnepeterson6570]

Thank you for letting me know. I’ll not watch it. 😖

[@aintnothingliketheoldskool]

​@@winnepeterson6570y'all take stuff to seriously

[@ernestkovach3305]

No panthers were actually hurt during the production of this movie. As for the dog ? Well....reportedly they served bowser up at the movie wrap dinner .It was a very tight budget , they could not afford a top shelf caterer, and besides, it's not nice to waste food.

[@FidelCastro404]

his carriage was not the last one when the train was at the station

[@cathyf.2672]

I noticed that too! I can imagine a senecio where the villain loosened the chains on the previous ones too.

[@user-pt4gf6vk7z]

thx. i'd like to know how they got the animal footage. bloody amazing!

[@believec3962]

Good movie. Too much time wasted on the panthers. Just when I started to get bored. It got better.

[@carlabroderick5508]

Nah, panthers running around evading idiot humans by far the best part, without that just a boring spy adventure in Switzerland, spiced up by some rail sabotage.

[@richardrobles6241]

In the 1940s and early 1950s, Duff was the best Sam Spade in the radio series. When Sen. McCarthy labeled Dashiell Hammett ("The Thin Man" series and "The Maltese Falcon") a communist, Duff, in support of his friend, quit Radio.

[@carmelbrain7399]

Duff film and not just Howard

[@RideoutMr]

Wonder what was that medallion she wore.

[@EPMcloughlin]

Poor chap rolling a joint ,,,,dudes trying to kill him 😊

[@pattimaeda6097]

Sherlock Holmes musical intro

[@mickeybitsko1676]

I have a little guy, black cat. Louie. Pulled out of Carson, ca shelter

[@amarreder6241]

Rate 6.6 Noir

[@patdoyle3686]

Poor ending to movie

[@redblade8160]

Why didn't they use tranquillizer darts in the rifles to capture the panthers instead of killing the cats?

[@GregoryGLake]

Bringing Up Baby this ain't 🦁

[@worthy999999]

there do appear to be soundtracks used in diverse showsfrom the era ... the music to some detective film noir srials sound very similar ... ie . JOHNNY DOLLAR series , and SEAHUNT ? i think it was called ... very dramatic and seem like same music ??

[@SuziQ.]

It’s the same music used in the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies.

[@jimclark6256]

Just put the film in the mail.

[@cathyf.2672]

LOL

[@mickeybitsko1676]

Marta Toren. Know Rip?😺

[@thepagan5432]

Well, Sabina the female dog must have had a sex change at some point. His male appendage was clear to see as he was jumping up to fight the panther. Good film though, interesting plot.

[@SuziQ.]

Lassie was also a male dog.

[@farshidehnasrin4284]

Appendage! 🤔I learned something new, thank you.

[@MichaelEnright-gk6yc]

Black Panthers North American Mountain lion with black fur.

[@tdouble-kt6jm]

After waiting with "bated breathe" during the entire movie, it ends with no knowledge of why so many were in pursuit of the microfilm. Any chance for a Part II here? Otherwise, great casting, plot.

[@harrietweber2520]

I think in the beginning it was explained

[@OEllsworth]

Yes, and I don't think a sequel would make it at the box office today.@@harrietweber2520

[@ernestkovach3305]

The film contained a secret formula for the hydrogen bomb. That part was edited out of the movie , unfortunately, because of the bare bones budget.

[@MegaRiffraff]

👍🏻

[@Tony-1950]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@ernestkovach3305]

Poor nosey dog ....ruff ruff ruff ruff!....uh oh...welp....welp....welp...eeeeee.....zzzzzzz.-------------

[@mickeybitsko1676]

Could use scenery chewer Vince price

[@daneblack2593]

Hey I like animals why do they leave those Panthers on the car by themselves, I would have tried to save them

[@Farhad.A.M]

Please subtitle Persian, thanksssss ❤

[@Farhad.A.M]

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[@Farhad.A.M]

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[@farshidehnasrin4284]

Learn English, with Persian subtitle you will lose a lot!

[@pmullins1495]

WHY Not Tranquilizer the big pretty cat ?? Then continue its journey (after retrieving the MI6-CIA's microfilm) .

[@user-tb7nv7hj8k]

Makes sense, then Duff could get his money.

[@cathyf.2672]

I thought Duff was going to try that, or use a trap with a Swiss meatball as bait.

[@OEllsworth]

Unfortunately, tranquilizer guns were not invented until 1959, so that was not a possibility in 1950. Google "When were animal tranquilizers invented," and the answer will come right up.

[@Farhad.A.M]

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[@redtobertshateshandles]

If you get shot at close range with that large calibre hunting rifle, it would blow your shoulder off. You would be in hospital or dead. Probably dead.

[@markhughes7927]

Y/tfilmulike - no sagging!❤ damnablebrits!😂!

[@catchaser52]

Reminds me of the Hunt to kill Hitler back in the day.

[@MaxGravitas]

Wooden acting and non-stop smoking.

[@moe9196]

I thought most panthers are black ?

[@21stcenturyscots]

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[@paulelkington1804]

how dare they use sherlock holmes music at the beginning

[@daneblack2593]

That's not nice 🙂

[@1funkyflyguy]

Completely unnecessary to the story to have the two beautiful panthers killed? They were the best thing in the whole movie! This was more of a fever dream film for horrid wildlife safari hunters. Would have been a much more enjoyable watch otherwise.

[@andreasplosky8516]

It's a movie. Things happen in movies.

[@harrietweber2520]

I won't be continuing to watch because of the killing rather than tranquing the panthers

[@OEllsworth]

Tranquilizer guns were invented in 1959. This movie is 1950, so that was not a possibility, unfortunately. I do share your sentiment here.

[@Jean-rg4sp]

Fret not; only two panthers were harmed in the making of this film.

[@mickeybitsko1676]

Spoiler alert; real stinkeroo 😺

[@mistervacation23]

Good God! If I knew all these Brits were in the movie I never would have watched it. That accent goes through me just like taking a screwdriver and jamming in my eye

[@stewartfoster6581]

Which eye?

[@pmullins1495]

It was crude, overly destructive, & inadequately executed. "F"

[@mistervacation23]

@@pmullins1495 agree 100%

[@marysifling279]

What???

[@marysifling279]

Well, you didn’t have to watch the whole thing