This movie is based on a stage play and it shows--despite some opening out of the action much of the picture takes place on a single set. Van Johnson-here simply going through the motions-plays Major Baxter Grant,an American army doctor in post war Germany who is falsely accused of drug dealing and murder .He flees to Berlin where his wife Anna(a wooden Katherine Kath)is still living She has rented their apartment to a cabaret singer played with some style by Hildegarde Neff who believes in his innocence and shields him from both the German police and the American army investigator played well by Cec Linder who makes the most of his role as a vulpine and unpleasant albeit competent investigator
Will Baxter be cleared?Who is the real villain?Will you remain awake long enough to satisfy yourself on these points?
It is very talky with poor dialogue and ineptly handled action scenes.Box does not direct the film -she merely points the camera in the general direction of the cast and lets them sink or swim
Exactly the kind of tepid dross that gave much of mainstream British cinema in the era such a reputation for listless,supine bourgeois ineptitude.