State Department: File 649

{{Infobox film

| name = State Department: File 649

| image =File:State Department 649.jpg

| caption =

| director = Sam Newfield

| producer = Sigmund Neufeld

| writer = Milton Raison

| narrator =

| starring = William Lundigan
Virginia Bruce
Jonathan Hale

| music = Lucien Cailliet

| cinematography = Jack Greenhalgh

| editing = Holbrook N. Todd

| distributor = Film Classics, Inc

| released = {{Film date|1949|02|11|df=yes}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =$750,000{{cite news|author=Schallert, E.|date=7 September 1948|title=Jackson saga of crime purchased by rossen; 'file 649' stars picked|work=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|165889423}}}}

| gross =

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State Department: File 649 is a 1949 American Cinecolor film noir directed by Sam Newfield and starring William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce and Jonathan Hale. The film is also known as Assignment in China in the United Kingdom.

Plot

Kenneth Seeley, a member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, 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.