Foreign Intrigue

7/12/19561h 35m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Robert Mitchum is the hunted... Europe is the hunting ground! ~

Overview:

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.

Director:

Sheldon Reynolds

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

falsely accused
post world war ii

Cast

Robert Mitchum

~ as ~

Dave Bishop

Geneviève Page

~ as ~

Dominique Danemore

Ingrid Thulin

~ as ~

Brita Lindquist

Frédéric O'Brady

~ as ~

Jonathan Spring

Inga Tidblad

~ as ~

Mrs Lundquist

Lauritz Falk

~ as ~

Jones

Eugene Deckers

~ as ~

Pierre Sandoz

John Padovano

~ as ~

Tony Forrest

Frederick Schrecker

~ as ~

Karl Mannheim

Georges Hubert

~ as ~

Dr. Thibault

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 6 month(s) ago
6
A wealthy man is half way up his library ladder when he is taken ill and dies. Nobody quite knows where the now deceased "Danemore" made his fortune so his assistant "Bishop" (Robert Mitchum) decides to find out more about his enigmatic employer. He's somewhat taken aback by just how little the widow (Genevieve Page) knows about things, but there is perhaps one clue in Vienna. Once he gets there, though, he is quickly embroiled in some post-war machinations that takes him to Sweden where a recent suicide amidst a wealthy family, taking a shine to the daughter of the house "Brita" (Ingrid Thulin) and the behaviour of his newly acquired gadfly "Spring" (Frederic O'Brady) only muddles things up even more. Mitchum is quite effective here delivering his best less-is-more style of characterisation, but I found neither Page nor Thulin really made much impact on a story where the roles of the women were actually a lot more important than in many of these post-war noirs. It's a but too wordy and the pace could also be doing with a bit of it's own electric shock treatment as it struggles to build or sustain much momentum. There is some nice photography to accompany the travelogue elements of the story and the mystery just about delivers, but it's nothing much to write home about.