Yellow Canary

Overview

In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.

Directed by Herbert Wilcox

Top cast

Anna Neagle

Sally Maitland

Richard Greene

Lieutenant Commander Jim Garrick

Nova Pilbeam

Betty Maitland

Albert Lieven

Jan Orlock

Lucie Mannheim

Madame Orlock

G

George Thorpe

Colonel Charles Hargraves

Marjorie Fielding

Lady Maitland

Franklin Dyall

Captain Foster

Margaret Rutherford

Mrs. Towcester

C

Claude Bailey

Major Fothergill

Valentine Dyall

German Commander

Sybille Binder

Madame Orlock's Attendant

Cyril Fletcher

And Introducing Entertainer

Leslie Dwyer

Ship's Steward

Ian Fleming

Observe Corpsman in Opening Scene

David Horne

Admiral

Eliot Makeham

Observer Corpsman in Opening Scene

Aubrey Mallalieu

Reynolds

Paul Dupuis

Intelligence Officer

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