State Department: File 649 (1949) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1949 · 87 mins · English

Directed by

Sam Newfield

Starring

Joseph Crehan, Frank Ferguson, Jonathan Hale, Robert Stevenson, John Holland, Virginia Bruce

Kenneth Seeley, an officer of the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Bureau, and morale worker Marge Weldon are posted to a remote Mongolian area ruled by a ruthless warlord. When the warlord’s forces seize their village and escape becomes impossible, Seeley blows up the warlord’s headquarters, sacrificing his life to destroy the enemy stronghold.