A plane lands at Tangier with three million dollars on it. Only no one can find it. That doesn't stop Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, Robert Douglas and Marcel Dalio from running around the city and suburbs - actually the Paramount lot and local air port - from looking for it in a shifting web of alliances.
John Warren Marquand's movie is noteworthy more for the fact it was shot in 3D and Technicolor than in being much more than a potboiler. What Dalio was doing here is not clear; probably picking up a paycheck. After all, in a career that spanned half a century and included THE RULES OF THE GAME and SUPERMWITCH OF LOVE ISLAND, there were highs and lows and a lot of in-betweens. This is somewhere in between. Potboiler, programmer, call it what you will, this clearly was intended for writer-director Marquand's break out of the 'shaky A' western, but despite the glossy cast and Ray Rennahan in charge of the camera, it doesn't offer anything special except the gimmick of 3D; and I saw it in a flat TV print, so that wasn't there
John Warren Marquand's movie is noteworthy more for the fact it was shot in 3D and Technicolor than in being much more than a potboiler. What Dalio was doing here is not clear; probably picking up a paycheck. After all, in a career that spanned half a century and included THE RULES OF THE GAME and SUPERMWITCH OF LOVE ISLAND, there were highs and lows and a lot of in-betweens. This is somewhere in between. Potboiler, programmer, call it what you will, this clearly was intended for writer-director Marquand's break out of the 'shaky A' western, but despite the glossy cast and Ray Rennahan in charge of the camera, it doesn't offer anything special except the gimmick of 3D; and I saw it in a flat TV print, so that wasn't there