The Red Danube

(1949)

119 minutes

Drama

Directed by George Sidney

Cast:

Walter Pidgeon as Col. Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar
Ethel Barrymore as The Mother Superior 
Peter Lawford as Major John 'Twingo' McPhimister
Angela Lansbury as Audrey Quail
Janet Leigh as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
Louis Calhern as Col. Piniev
Francis L. Sullivan as Col. Humphrey 'Blinker' Omicron
Melville Cooper as Pvt. David Moonlight
Robert Coote as Brig. C.M.V. Catlock
Alan Napier as The General  
 
The Red Danube trailer 

The film takes place right after World War II, where British Colonel Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar is commissioned to a troop in the British territory of Vienna. His job is to help the Soviet leaders to send back residents of the Soviet Union. The problem is most of them do not want to come back to their mother land. He becomes involved in the predicament of getting a young ballerina to return to Moscow.