With Anthony Quayle and Zsa Zsa Gabor as (alleged) newly-weds on a plane, interacting in that nauseating 50s style which is enough to put you off romance for life. But then they reach their hotel room and drop the pretence. She is an American agent, and he is a virologist. They chat with their controller, and arrange a meet with a Hungarian scientist in the underground at Victoria. When will spies learn how to have a vital conversation about bioweapons while appearing to be exchanging information about the 4.50 to Torquay? Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman did it much better in Notorious.
But then Ms Gabor (who's not bad in her role) is mysteriously shot, just as the couple decide to go through with the honeymoon charade for real. Quayle spends much of the rest of the film in the dock or in a cell, and Anna Neagle swans to the fore as his defending counsel. Katherine Kath appears in the witness box and gives a bravura display of overacting.
I was waiting for a Witness for the Prosecution type twist. SURELY Ms Gabor was a double agent? SURELY Quayle, once cleared, will confess he shot her deliberately to stop her giving away the germ secrets? But no - it looks like he is headed for the altar after all with Ms Neagle.
Ms Gabor had a certain style, and wears some sumptuous outfits. How did she fit that ballgown into her luggage?
But then Ms Gabor (who's not bad in her role) is mysteriously shot, just as the couple decide to go through with the honeymoon charade for real. Quayle spends much of the rest of the film in the dock or in a cell, and Anna Neagle swans to the fore as his defending counsel. Katherine Kath appears in the witness box and gives a bravura display of overacting.
I was waiting for a Witness for the Prosecution type twist. SURELY Ms Gabor was a double agent? SURELY Quayle, once cleared, will confess he shot her deliberately to stop her giving away the germ secrets? But no - it looks like he is headed for the altar after all with Ms Neagle.
Ms Gabor had a certain style, and wears some sumptuous outfits. How did she fit that ballgown into her luggage?