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Currently you are able to watch "Venetian Bird" streaming on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads. Synopsis Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war.
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Venetian Bird is a gripping thriller from 1952 directed by Ralph Thomas, starring Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, and John Gregson. The story centers around a private detective named Edward Mercer, played by Richard Todd, who is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a British agent in Venice during the post-World War II period.
Venetian Bird. Traveling to Venice on behalf of a French insurance company in order to locate an ex-partisan, a British private detective gets mixed-up in a political assassination conspiracy. Stars Oscar-nominated Richard Todd.
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British thriller film starring Richard Todd, Eva Bartok and John Gregson, and directed by Ralph Thomas. The screenplay was adapted by Victor Canning from his own 1950 novel of the same title.
Venetian Bird is structurally similar to Mr Canning's other very competent thrillers, but it is a long way from them in style and feeling. The shabby private inquiry agent, Mercer, who broods on the fact that 'something has happened to money since the war' so that he is down to third-class hotels and second-class travel, is an admirable central ...
Debonair private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) goes to Venice at the request of a millionaire to locate Renzo Uccello (John Gregson) – a brave Italian partisan who saved his life during WWII. At least, that is what Mercer thinks as he steps off the steamer at the Piazza San Marco.
