Old pro Albert Paulsen, whom you may remember as the humorless Communist agent in the original "Manchurian Candidate," steals this one out from under the regulars. As an alcoholic whose memory somehow remains phenomenal, he is pretty much on his own as a prisoner trying to get the goods on his captors despite beatings and humiliation. Apparently the rather heartless Briggs is going to leave him to his fate until he finds out that his "Mr. Memory" has found and memorized an essential list of enemy agents. The final rescue makes up the climax. But the Brigss character had a couple of these rather nasty hard-boiled moments. I was just as happy when they replaced him with the upright Jim Phelps.
Review of Memory
