Richard Boone as director tries to pull an Orson Welles in this disappointing episode of his great repertory series. The actors elevate the lousy cloak & dagger material provided by the series' script supervisor William Gordon (who earlier delivered an excellent screenplay for "The Fling").
Warren Stevens impresses playing an action hero straight out of those European B movies starring George Nader, in a transparent tale of WW II veterans 20 years after, some idealistic (Stevens) and many cynical, inlcudng Boone, bad guy Guy Stockwell (giving a poor performance among the ensemble players) and a couple of earthy faux French femme fatales: Laura Devon and over-the-top Jeanette Nolan.
Boone includes plenty of jiu jitsu fight scenes for Stevens, but the show's pace is dull and the themes of romanticism (regarding heroic for a cause during the war) versus cynicism (very corny issues of compromise and going over to the dark side to survive) are trite. Welles specialized in these fanciful morality tales but for Boone the show lapses into parody..
Warren Stevens impresses playing an action hero straight out of those European B movies starring George Nader, in a transparent tale of WW II veterans 20 years after, some idealistic (Stevens) and many cynical, inlcudng Boone, bad guy Guy Stockwell (giving a poor performance among the ensemble players) and a couple of earthy faux French femme fatales: Laura Devon and over-the-top Jeanette Nolan.
Boone includes plenty of jiu jitsu fight scenes for Stevens, but the show's pace is dull and the themes of romanticism (regarding heroic for a cause during the war) versus cynicism (very corny issues of compromise and going over to the dark side to survive) are trite. Welles specialized in these fanciful morality tales but for Boone the show lapses into parody..