I've never read anything by Margery Allingham but I've always understood her to be well regarded and in the forefront of female thriller writers which is why it's disappointing that this film is such a dog's breakfast. As a general rule s film stands or falls by the way the male and female leads interact with each other and it's fairly obvious from the start that there was more chemistry between Moishe Dayan and Golda Meir than between Donald Sinden and Muriel Pavlov. The best thing in it is the atmospheric black and white photography in the early scenes with London bathed in fog which turns out to be more penetrable than the plot.
Review of Tiger in the Smoke
