| Leonard Maltin's Rating: (1/4) 
Genres:
Thriller Romance Spy
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Ben Hecht
Composer:
Roy Webb
Director of Photography:
Ted Tetzlaff
Review:
Top-notch espionage tale by Ben Hecht, set in post-WW2 South America,
with Ingrid marrying spy Rains to aid U.S. and agent Grant. Frank, tense,
well acted, with amazingly suspenseful climax (and one memorably passionate
love scene).
Trivia:
Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about an hour in, drinking champagne
at the party in Claude Rains' mansion
Hitchcock claimed that the FBI had him under surveillance
for three months because the film dealt with Uranium for the A-bomb.
The films producer, David O. Selznick had originally
wanted Vivien Leigh for Ingrid Bergman's role.
The original story, "The Song of the Dragon" was first
published in the Saturday Evening Post in November 1921.
It was remade in 1992 as a TV-movie. |
