Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Sick Product of a Sick System

Best movie ever!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I'll always have a special place in my heart for this film because it casts the usual Nazi villain Conrad Veidt as the good guy for a change. With that severe face and totally serious Arian voice, he was typecast for years as villains, and once World War II came around, he was relegated to playing cultured Germans who underneath were anything but on the side of the Allies. But here, sadly in his last film, he is cast against type, that face and voice still imperious, but with a much lighter heart, and on the side of an American couple (Fred MacMurray and Joan Crawford) who are on the European mainland on their honeymoon. MacMurray is an Oxford professor who was asked on his way out of England to perform a service for the Allies and new wife Crawford is game for helping him. On the way, they encounter MacMurray's old college chum Basil Rathbone who hides his suspicions in order to find out what MacMurray and Crawford are up to. Veidt keeps popping up for a few amusing bits, and you aren't quite sure why he's there. There's murder at the symphony, a chase down a mountain road, and ultimately a confrontation between Allies and the Axis that goes the way of the Reichstag.A fine cast of supporting players include Cecil Cunningham as Rathbone's imperious mama, Eily Malyon as a hotel attendant ("Make sure you pull down the shade", she tells MacMurray and Crawford suspiciously, adding "There's a practice blackout tonight" for comic innuendo) and MGM perennial Reginald Owen. While this was Crawford's last MGM film under her long contract and she had been considered box-office poison, it was a nice way to leave the studio she had considered home for 18 years. It has all the fun of some of the lightly comic anti-Nazi films that Warner Brothers had done (particularly "All Through the Night") with MacMurray wryly delivering some lines insulting the Nazis. "Vat is dope?" one of the S.S. workers asks rather confused. Relatively short at only 90 minutes, the film flies by, its mix of romance, comedy and action always entertaining and entirely suspenseful.

Those wonderful movies of the past. The film's setting is in the days prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Although it would have been highly unlikely that British Intelligence would have asked two non-Britishers and non-professionals to do a bit of spying for them which could turn very dangerous for them and give the whole thing away plus creating an international scandal (the World War had not yet started), yet it is always interesting to see how it would have developed. Good slick direction by Mr. Thorpe, excellent acting by Mr. McMurray and specially by Miss Crawford, excellent set design which does not forget the overcoats needed on the Brenner Pass between Austria (in the Film the country is called Southern Germany) and Itally (which did not get into the War until 1940). Good to see two decent people doing the right thing for the right cause endangering their own lives to get away from the Nazi and back to safety. Good work and fun to watch and don't forget the inimitable Mr. Veidt. He should have been in Hollywood a decade earlier.Barzin SamimiTehran, Iran

Joan Crawford's last film for MGM doesn't exactly showcase her talents, and she soon after moved to Warner Bros. and her Oscar triumph in Mildred Pierce. She was just a well-dressed clothes horse for Metro by the 40s.This particular piece of hokum though teams her with the tiresome Fred MacMurray, Basil Rathbone, and, in his last film, Conrad Veidt. Veidt is as good as ever and his presence certainly lifts the film.It is a tale of intrigue and the fight against Nazism, but is hardly involving. I've seen much better movies on similar lines made before and after this one, and it isn't one I'd be that bothered about seeing again.

If you like the kind of spy-romance yarns spun out by Hollywood in the 1940s--the kind with tongue-in-cheek dialogue that lets you know you're not supposed to take any of it too seriously--you'll enjoy this amusing, yet suspenseful film in which Conrad Veidt plays a "nice guy" for a change. Honeymooners Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray are asked by British intelligence to do some spying while on their European jaunt. The agreeable pair go along with a plan that has them on the trail of an agent and in and out of dangerous situations as they are pursued by Basil Rathbone, chilling as usual as a Nazi. Good entertainment with some amusing dialogue and light-hearted performances by Joan and Fred that indicate they should have been teamed more than once. As it is, this is Joan Crawford's last film at Metro after seventeen years with the studio and comes just two years before "Mildred Pierce" at Warners. Good cast and fine production values make it an absorbing treat.