RAY MILLAND is a man just released from an asylum during WWII and we follow his misadventures after he's told to stay out of trouble. He guesses the weight of a cake at a fair and soon thereafter he and the cake become an integral part of the plot, taken from a Graham Greene novel.
Milland gives his usual competent performance as the man who doesn't know whom to believe when he finds himself among some Nazi spies. MARJORIE REYNOLDS is sufficient as his love interest but her role is very peripheral and she makes no lasting impression as the femme lead. DAN DURYEA is at his nastiest and has a few interesting scenes.
Overall, a disappointment since the espionage plot is rather murkily unraveled and by the time the wrap-up comes, some viewers may have already lost track of some of the story's twists and turns.
Summing up: Definitely not one of Fritz Lang's best films, but of passable interest for those who like spy stories.
Milland gives his usual competent performance as the man who doesn't know whom to believe when he finds himself among some Nazi spies. MARJORIE REYNOLDS is sufficient as his love interest but her role is very peripheral and she makes no lasting impression as the femme lead. DAN DURYEA is at his nastiest and has a few interesting scenes.
Overall, a disappointment since the espionage plot is rather murkily unraveled and by the time the wrap-up comes, some viewers may have already lost track of some of the story's twists and turns.
Summing up: Definitely not one of Fritz Lang's best films, but of passable interest for those who like spy stories.