Directed by:
Terry O. MorseCinematography:
Sidney HickoxCast:
Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester, Holmes Herbert, John Sutton, Maris Wrixon, Sam Harris, Lester Matthews, William Bailey, Paul Panzer (more)Plots(1)
In WWI Europe, a German spy Valdar (Boris Karloff) is masquerading as the butler of a British war official (Holmes Herbert). Helene Von Lorbeer (Margaret Lindsay) is a counterspy sent to live with the British family and rendezvous with Valdar. She is searching for a key operative in the German spy ring. (Alpha Video)
Reviews (2)
Wordy but fast-paced entertainment trying to look like a serious espionage drama. To truly enjoy this,
you need to like the atmosphere of image and sound of black-and-white classics, be able to watch it from
a detached perspective, savor Boris Karloff’s acting skills and above all pay attention, because the film is based
on being overly contrived.
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More than a good spy spectacle with a perfect atmosphere and a properly sneaky script, which is full of question marks and twists especially towards the end. Boris Karloff is admirably sleazy in places, and it seemed to me that Quentin Tarantino was inspired by him when he wrote the character of Samuel L. Jackson for Django Unchained. I also praise the wartime inserts, the opening aerial duel looks truly perfect and the bombers' raid on the ammunition depots is almost breathtaking (perfect work with miniatures, which are almost impossible to detect).
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