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Comrade X ()

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An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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McKinley B. Thompson
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Theodore
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Vasiliev
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Vanya
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Jane Wilson
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Emil Von Hofer (as Sig Rumann)
Natasha Lytess ...
Olga
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Michael Bastakoff
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Rubick
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Laszlo (as George Renevant)
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Russian Officer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ed Agresti ...
Press Correspondent (uncredited)
Alexander Asro ...
Russian Waiter (uncredited)
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Press Correspondent (uncredited)
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Marriage Bureau Customer (uncredited)
Lici Balla ...
Russian Woman (uncredited)
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Comrade Baronoff - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
John Bleifer ...
Russian Marriage License Clerk / Russian Tank Co-Pilot (uncredited)
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Streetcar Passenger (uncredited)
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British World Press Attendee (uncredited)
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Marriage Bureau Customer (uncredited)
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Press Correspondent (uncredited)
Ilia Khmara ...
Russian Man (uncredited)
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World Press Attendee With Glasses (uncredited)
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Goronoff - the Bellhop (uncredited)
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Press Correspondent (uncredited)
Alex Melesh ...
Effeminate Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
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Press Correspondent (uncredited)
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World Press Attendee Standing Next to Von Hofer (uncredited)
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Russian Bridegroom (uncredited)
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Press Correspondent (uncredited)
Count Stefenelli ...
Press Correspondent (uncredited)

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King Vidor

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Ben Hecht ... (screen play) and
Charles Lederer ... (screen play)
 
Walter Reisch ... (original story)
 
Herman J. Mankiewicz ... () (uncredited)
 
Gottfried Reinhardt ... () (uncredited)

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Gottfried Reinhardt ... producer
King Vidor ... producer

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Bronislau Kaper
Daniele Amfitheatrof ... (uncredited)

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Joseph Ruttenberg ... director of photography

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Harold F. Kress ... film editor

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Cedric Gibbons

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Edwin B. Willis ... (set decorations)

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Adrian ... (gowns)
Gile Steele ... (costumes: men)

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Jack Dawn ... makeup creator

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Tom Andre ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Malcolm Brown ... associate art director

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Douglas Shearer ... recording director

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A. Arnold Gillespie ... special effects (as Arnold Gillespie)

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Karl Freund ... camera operator: night exteriors (uncredited)

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Murray Cutter ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Leonid Raab ... orchestrator (uncredited)

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Carl 'Major' Roup ... script clerk (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson, American reporter in Moscow, smuggles out uncensored news under the alias "Comrade X," but hotel valet Vanya discovers his secret. Vanya fears for the safety of his daughter Golubka ("Theodore") and blackmails Mac into helping her leave the country. Mac is happier about his task once he meets lovely Theodore, but can he convince her of his sincerity? The anti-communist humor becomes alternately grim and farcical. Written by Rod Crawford

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Also Known As
  • Madame X (United States)
  • Camarade X (France)
  • Camarada X (Spain)
  • Towarzysz X (Poland)
  • Camarada X (Venezuela)
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Trivia At the time this film was released, in 1940, World War II had already begun in Europe, but the Soviet Union still had a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. In the film, Mac is able to fool a character by pretending to hear news that Germany has broken the pact and launched an invasion of the USSR. Of course, that's exactly what happened the very next year when Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in summer 1941. See more »
Goofs The script makes reference to the Soviet law that a person could divorce his or her spouse simply by sending them a postcard announcing that the marriage was over. But in 1936, four years before this film was made, Stalin had repealed that law when he rewrote the Russian constitution and made divorces considerably harder to get. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Miracle of Sound (1940). See more »
Soundtracks Funiculi, Funicula See more »
Crazy Credits "RUSSIA. The never never land of steppes, samovars and spies -- beards, bears, bombs and borscht - where almost anything can happen - and usually does. " See more »
Quotes Vanya: The communists have ideas. But they found out you can't run a government with everybody going around having ideas. So what is happening, the communists are being executed so that Communism should succeed.
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