Background to Danger

Background to DangerThe studio that put Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca also sent fellow film tough guy George Raft to Ankara for a World War II thriller featuring intrigue, romance and Casablanca's Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. The danger starts when a beautiful brunette hands American Joe Barton (Raft) some securities for safekeeping. The brunette turns up dead, the securities turn out to be explosive intel and Joe is #1 on the Most Wanted list of both Nazi

His efforts in this film and two others earned him the Best Director Academy Award®

She's of the moneyed elite

Jellystone Park is closing down

Stella (Josephine Hutchinson)

Full of sprightly songs by lyricist Johnny Mercer and melodists Richard Whiting and Harry Warren

And Dolores Gray

Dancehall girl Julia Packett (Greer Garson) has not seen her daughter since shortly after her birth

Acclaimed dancer Tamara Toumanova (soon to be Mrs

The faux buckaroo manages to pull off the ruse until he's challenged to ride in a Madison Square Garden rodeo

the gang aims to use their symbolic powers to free a wrongly jailed pal and bring down an arson racket that's blighting the neighborhood

especially in a sexy south-of-the-border dance sequence that's a lot more Latin Bombshell than Swedish Sphinx

is determined that this upstart just isn't Eli material