The Man Between
"Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!"
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
"Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!"
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
Claire Bloom
Suzanne Mallison
James Mason
Ivo Kern
Hildegard Knef
Bettina
Geoffrey Toone
Martin Mallison
Hilde Sessak
Lizzi
Aribert Wäscher
Halendar
Ernst Schröder
Olaf Kastner
Dieter Krause
Horst
Karl John
Inspector Kleiber
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
Very much in the vein of Carol Reed's similar cold war thriller "The Third Man" (1949), this is a gritty and characterful story set in Berlin just before the Soviet Union imposed travel restrictions. This time, the Communists kidnap "Susanne" (Claire Bloom) - she happens to be the sister of British officer "Martin" (Geoffrey Toone) and we are now presented with an intriguing and internecine series of spy and counter-spy scenarios that revolve around the dubious "Ivo" (James Mason) with whom the missing woman had been associating with - and has fallen for. It transpires that she is being held so that they can use her as leverage for the return of "Kastner" (Ernst Schröder), a lawyer with a distinctly dodgy pre-war past. It now falls to "Ivo" to rescue her and smuggle her to safety. Desmond Dickinson's dark and eery photography - especially in what's left of the heavily bombed out Berlin - coupled with a seedy and effective John Addison score work well to create an atmospheric environment. I didn't love Mason's rather unreliable German accent, but Bloom is quite effective and there are compensating and strong supporting contributions from an on-form Hildegard Knef ("Bettina") and from Aribert Wäscher as the untrustworthy "Halendar" as the plot twists and turns towards quite a menacing and tightly shot denouement. The narrative is tight, the romance sparing, it is frequently quite compelling to watch and it does have a ring of plausibility to it. A superior crime drama well worth a watch.
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หลังจากรู้ว่าการตายของภรรยาของเขาไม่ใช่อุบัติเหตุ อดีตหัวหน้าสถานี CIA ก็ถูกบังคับให้กลับเข้าสู่โลกใต้ดินของหน่วยสืบราชการลับ โดยร่วมมือกับศัตรูเพื่อคลี่คลายแผนการสมคบคิดที่ท้าทายทุกสิ่งที่เขาคิดว่าเขารู้
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อลิเซีย อูเบอร์แมนบุตรสาวของนักโทษขายชาติได้รับการทาบทามจากเจ้าหน้าที่รัฐนาม ที.อาร์. เดฟลิน ให้เข้าไปแฝงตัวคอยสอดแนมอยู่ในกลุ่มเพื่อนเก่าทหารนาซีของพ่อเธอซึ่งกำลังปฏิบัติการอยู่ในอเมริกาใต้ ในระหว่างภารกิจเสี่ยงภัยนี้ความสัมพันธ์ของอลิเชียและเดฟลินก็พัฒนาขึ้นจนกลายเป็นความรัก แต่อลิเชียก็ต้องพบว่าเธอได้ถลำตัวเข้าไปพัวพันกับสิ่งที่อันตรายเกินกว่าเธอจะคาดคิด
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