Never Let Me Go
Shortly after World War II, Moscow-based American newspaper reporter Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) marries Russian ballerina Marya Lamarkina (Gene Tierney) of the Bolshoi Ballet. They plan to settle…
Never Let Me Go
Shortly after World War II, Moscow-based American newspaper reporter Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) marries Russian ballerina Marya Lamarkina (Gene Tierney) of the Bolshoi Ballet. They plan to settle in San Francisco eventually, though they realize that an exit visa for Marya will be difficult to obtain. The Sutherlands honeymoon in Tallinn, where they encounter Marya's friend Svetlana (Anna Valentina) who is there with her English husband, Christopher Wellington St. John Denny (Richard Haydn). For taking pictures of his wife at the seaside, Denny is accused of spying by the NKVD, the Russian secret police. He is sent home to England without his wife and banished permanently from Russia. Philip writes an article that annoys the government and he can no longer be in Russia. He too is sent home and separated from his Russian wife. Because of the Cold War, the only way for each couple to communicate is through letters smuggled by Philip's friend Steve Quillan (Kenneth More), an English radio broadcaster who still works in Moscow. While visiting Christopher Denny in Cornwall, Philip comes up with a plan to smuggle the wives out of Russia. He buys an old Dutch sailing boat and enlists the aid of experienced sailor Joe Brooks (Bernard Miles). Marya will be in Tallinn with the Bolshoi in mid-August, and arrangements for the rendezvous are made via coded messages from Quillan. Philip, Christopher and Joe sail to the Gulf of Finland. Svetlana swims out from Tallinn and they pick her up, but the Bolshoi schedule has changed at the last minute and Marya is still in Tallinn, dancing the lead in Swan Lake. Philip swims ashore, where he is inconspicuous in the throng of beach-goers. From a cabana, he steals an army medical officer's uniform and goes to the ballet. When Marya is taking her bows, she sees Philip in the audience and faints. He is escorted backstage to tend to the stricken ballerina. Continuing to improvise, he insists on taking her to the hospital, and a car is provided. As they drive away, dancer Valentina Alexandrovna (Belita) recognizes Philip and alerts the authorities who chase his vehicle. A car chase ends with Philip deliberately driving off a pier into the Baltic Sea. Philip and Marya escape the car and swim to the waiting rowboat off shore to join their friends on the sailboat to sail to Britain and to freedom.
Never Let Me Go
Adventure,Drama,Romance
Film Details
Shortly after World War II, Moscow-based American newspaper reporter Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) marries Russian ballerina Marya Lamarkina (Gene Tierney) of the Bolshoi Ballet. They plan to settle in San Francisco eventually, though they realize that an exit visa for Marya will be difficult to obtain. The Sutherlands honeymoon in Tallinn, where they encounter Marya's friend Svetlana (Anna Valentina) who is there with her English husband, Christopher Wellington St.
John Denny (Richard Haydn). For taking pictures of his wife at the seaside, Denny is accused of spying by the NKVD, the Russian secret police. He is sent home to England without his wife and banished permanently from Russia.
Philip writes an article that annoys the government and he can no longer be in Russia. He too is sent home and separated from his Russian wife. Because of the Cold War, the only way for each couple to communicate is through letters smuggled by Philip's friend Steve Quillan (Kenneth More), an English radio broadcaster who still works in Moscow.
While visiting Christopher Denny in Cornwall, Philip comes up with a plan to smuggle the wives out of Russia. He buys an old Dutch sailing boat and enlists the aid of experienced sailor Joe Brooks (Bernard Miles). Marya will be in Tallinn with the Bolshoi in mid-August, and arrangements for the rendezvous are made via coded messages from Quillan.
Philip, Christopher and Joe sail to the Gulf of Finland. Svetlana swims out from Tallinn and they pick her up, but the Bolshoi schedule has changed at the last minute and Marya is still in Tallinn, dancing the lead in Swan Lake. Philip swims ashore, where he is inconspicuous in the throng of beach-goers.
From a cabana, he steals an army medical officer's uniform and goes to the ballet. When Marya is taking her bows, she sees Philip in the audience and faints. He is escorted backstage to tend to the stricken ballerina.
Continuing to improvise, he insists on taking her to the hospital, and a car is provided. As they drive away, dancer Valentina Alexandrovna (Belita) recognizes Philip and alerts the authorities who chase his vehicle. A car chase ends with Philip deliberately driving off a pier into the Baltic Sea.
Philip and Marya escape the car and swim to the waiting rowboat off shore to join their friends on the sailboat to sail to Britain and to freedom..