Night People

Thriller about the efforts to rescue a kidnapped GI from East Germany. Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Rita Gam, Anita Bjork. Foster: Walter Abel. McColloch: Buddy Ebsen. Petrechine: Peter Van Eyck. Hobart: Casey Adams. Kathy: Marianne Koch. Filmed in Berlin. Nunnally Johnson directed., In this espionage thriller, set in the midst of the Cold War, an intelligence officer attempts to rescue a soldier who has been captured by the communists and taken to East Berlin. If the Westerners send a former German general to their headquarters, the captors will release the boy unharmed.