It's a bit unfortunate that three of the four Clark Gable-Lana Turner co-starring vehicles have had World War II backgrounds
Certainly two such beautiful people warranted more glamorous trappings
Their fourth and final film together, "Betrayed," had them back in combat suits and steel helmets for a cloak-and-dagger melodrama, the script of which provided too few love scenes to suit the fans of this charismatic duo
But although the fireworks weren't as loud, the romantic moments did occasionally certain rewards, including a recitation of that classic line, "
you're beautiful when you're angry" (Gable to Turner, of course).
The location site was Holland and Reinhardt's exquisite Eastman Color camera lovingly captured all the atmospheric beauty and old-world charm of the Netherlands, giving the film a genuine travelog look
Competing with the scenery for front-and-center attention was the film's third co-star, Victor Mature, out of togas and sandals for a change and, during this period of his career, almost overdressed in peasant garb for the highly colorful role of "The Scarf," a dashing Resistance leader
This espionage puzzle drama opens as Colonel Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) is captured by the Nazis "The Scarf's" small forces liberates him, and he escapes to England where he enlists playgirl Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) as a spy She is a Dutch widow who had been friendly with the enemy, and by way of redeeming herself, she agrees to become an agent for the British
Deventer trains her for the task and the two fall in love, but their romance is disrupted by a dangerous leak in security with the finger pointing to Carla as the traitor who had sold out to the Germans
The location site was Holland and Reinhardt's exquisite Eastman Color camera lovingly captured all the atmospheric beauty and old-world charm of the Netherlands, giving the film a genuine travelog look
Competing with the scenery for front-and-center attention was the film's third co-star, Victor Mature, out of togas and sandals for a change and, during this period of his career, almost overdressed in peasant garb for the highly colorful role of "The Scarf," a dashing Resistance leader
This espionage puzzle drama opens as Colonel Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) is captured by the Nazis "The Scarf's" small forces liberates him, and he escapes to England where he enlists playgirl Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) as a spy She is a Dutch widow who had been friendly with the enemy, and by way of redeeming herself, she agrees to become an agent for the British
Deventer trains her for the task and the two fall in love, but their romance is disrupted by a dangerous leak in security with the finger pointing to Carla as the traitor who had sold out to the Germans