Assignment Redhead (1956)

An international master criminal (Ronald Adam), who specializes in providing false documents seeks to get control of a trunk of counterfeit American dollars. But an American Army Major (Richard Denning) who is assigned to find and expose the criminal unknowing falls in love with one of the criminal's accomplices (Carole Mathews). Based on the novel REQUIEM FOR A REDHEAD by Lindsay Hardy and directed by Maclean Rogers. Retitled MILLION DOLLAR MANHUNT in the U.S., this British programmer suffers from a contrived screenplay and mediocre acting. I rather like Carole Mathews but why an English production felt the need to send away to the U.S. for a not very well known American actress to play an Austrian cabaret performer is perplexing. Surely there was no shortage of German or Austrian actresses available to them in 1956. It's the kind of crime thriller where you're always one jump ahead of the characters on the screen, so there's no tension, no surprises. With Brian Worth and Jan Holden.