This is a movie which for so long seems to have been on a backburner despite its strong cast and speedy flow. Made in 1950, yet it contains much cinematography (albeit black and white) which would be in keeping with a film made many years later.
The story, written by Sydney Gilliat is both exciting and well told and skips along in absorbing fashion, keeping alive the kind of political extremes of a few years before under the Nazis, or perhaps a few years later under Communist regimes. The central theme of escapism is really well told and the main characters, played by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glynis Johns and Jack Hawkins are perfectly performed.
A brilliant, yet vastly underrated film.
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