The Blue Arrow

1959 · 94 min · ★ 4.3 · Thriller, Action

An officer accidentally leaks information about the first test of a new aircraft model. When spies get hold of this classified information, the development of the new airplane is under threat.

Directed by Leonid Estrin · Written by Vladimir Chernosvitov

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Andrei Goncharov Karpenko
Henrikh Ostashevskyi Sergeev
Nikolai Muravyov Ostapchuk
Konstantin Bartashevich fleet commander
Vladimir Volchik Jansen, spy
Pavel Luspekayev chief of staff
Ivan Pereverzev Belsky
Aleksey Bakhar Carl, a diver-saboteur
Boris Novikov Lieutenant Dudnik
V. Belyy journalist
Aleksey Maksimov Kerzhentsev

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