# Me too with a new "what's this movie" thread

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 12, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-too-with-a-new-whats-this-movie-thread/32946 "2000-09-12T21:27:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-too-with-a-new-whats-this-movie-thread/32946/1 "2000-09-12T21:27:55Z")

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I once saw the last 2/3 of a great movie, but never could find out the title. It’s made perhaps in the 1950s, and it stars William Holden as a Swedish businessman “persuaded” by the English into spying on the Nazis with whom he does business. Eventually he is discovered and must escape from the Nazis through Amsterdam. It’s a great spy flick and I’d love to see it again, but I don’t know its name! Help?

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-too-with-a-new-whats-this-movie-thread/32946/2 "2000-09-12T21:45:05Z")

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[The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)](http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0055871)

In future I’d recommend you try the IMDB first. You’d probably save yourself a lot of time. All it took was a search on William Holden and then I just guessed at the first ‘spy-sounding’ title where he played a character with a Swedish-sounding name.

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**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-too-with-a-new-whats-this-movie-thread/32946/3 "2000-09-12T21:47:42Z")

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[The Counterfeit Traitor](http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0055871)

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**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-too-with-a-new-whats-this-movie-thread/32946/4 "2000-09-12T21:48:47Z")

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Ooohh matt, you beat me to it 😉

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-too-with-a-new-whats-this-movie-thread/32946/5 "2000-09-12T22:22:03Z")

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Thanks, mattk and monster. That’s the movie, all right. I bookmarked the IMDB. I had been using the TV Guide Online/Movie Database, but this one works better.