State Department: File 649
State Department: File 649 is a 1949 film noir Cinecolor American film directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Peter Stewart").

The film is also known as Assignment in China in the United Kingdom.

Plot summary 
Kenneth Seeley (William Lundigan), member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon (Virginia Bruce ), a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and they´ll have to make a plan to escape.

Cast 
William Lundigan as Kenneth R. Seeley
Virginia Bruce as Margaret 'Marge' Weldon
Jonathan Hale as Director General of Foreign Service
Frank Ferguson as Consul-General Reither
Richard Loo as Marshal Yun Usu
Philip Ahn as Col. Aram
Raymond Bond as Consul Howard Brown
Milton Kibbee as Bill Sneed, white trader
Victor Sen Yung as Johnny Hon, houseboy
Lora Lee Michel as Jessica Morse
John Holland as Wilfred Ballinger
Harlan Warde as Rev. Dr. Morse
Carole Donne as Mrs. Sarah Morse
Barbara Woodell as Carrie Willoughby, pianist
Lee Bennett as Agent Don Logan
Robert Stevenson as Mongolian Spy
H.T. Tsiang as Mayor Wan-too
Joseph Crehan as Junior Official
Ray Bennett as Fur Trader
Nana Bryant as Mrs. Peggy Brown

Production
Filming started 15 September at Nassour Studios.

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