Rendezvous (1935 film)
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| Directed by |
William K. Howard Sam Wood (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Lawrence Weingarten |
| Screenplay by | P. J. Wolfson George Oppenheimer Adaptation: Bella and Samuel Spewack Uncredited: Herman Mankiewicz Howard Emmett Rogers |
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The American Black Chamber by Herbert O. Yardley |
| Starring |
William Powell Rosalind Russell Binnie Barnes |
| Music by | William Axt |
| Cinematography |
William H. Daniels James Wong Howe (uncredited) |
| Edited by | Hugh Wynn |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Rendezvous is a 1935 spy film set in World War I, directed by William K. Howard, starring William Powell and Rosalind Russell and featuring Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero and Samuel S. Hinds. Powell plays an American cryptologist who tangles with German spies while falling in love.
The film's screenplay by P. J. Wolfson and George Oppenheimer was based on The American Black Chamber, the controversial memoirs of Herbert Yardley, founder and head of MI8, as adapted by Bella and Samuel Spewack.
In April 1917, former newspaperman William Gordon (William Powell) is commissioned in the U.S. Army. The day before he is to leave Washington, D.C. for France, he meets socialite Joel Carter (Rosalind Russell) at an embassy gathering. The couple spend the day together where Gordon confides that because he once wrote a book on cryptography under a pen name, the army is searching for him to put him to work behind a desk, but he is eager to get into the fighting. Just before he boards his train, Gordon is ordered to report to Assistant Secretary of War John Carter (Samuel S. Hinds). Over his objections, Carter assigns Gordon to the code-breaking room to help break an intercepted German message that Major Brennan (Lionel Atwill), an experienced British cryptologist, has been unable to decipher. Gordon learns that Carter is Joel's uncle, and that she revealed his true identity to keep him in Washington.
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