| RATING: | 100% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Despite the highly perfunctory plotting and often risible dialogue, this is excellent wartime propaganda.
This is a cast to die for since all of the performers are having fun in a melodramatic pot-boiler that eloquently and intelligently sums up why you cannot sit on the fence when the balloon goes up. For one thing it is unmanly to not take sides; for another, the respect of a beautiful woman like Ingrid BERGMAN is at stake!
This is a movie about the sacrifices necessary to achieve your goals, because you cannot have your cake and eat it, too; hence the downbeat ending. Given a choice between La BERGMAN and Claude RAINS, I am not sure fighting Nazism would figure all that highly in my plans!
A film you can watch over and over again and never get bored with it: They really, really don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
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