"What can go wrong, will go wrong"
Richard Widmark is a US Air Force Policeman (Sgt Joe Lawrence) with all the angles in post-WWII Berlin (interesting footage) who, for the love of Mai Zetterling (German orphans' schoolmistress, can't get more worthy than that), decides to go in with George Cole (as a British MP sergeant - doing a RADA McScots accent) to steal a USAF DC-3 or 4 carrying NAZI GOLD back to England (more interesting footage).
The setup of Sgt Lawrence as being so desperate to rescue Mai Zetterling he goes rogue for all the right reasons is very laboured. The actual caper itself, and the unexpected variations of the original plan are pretty good, considering Nigel Patrick's (always best as a baddie) getaway is thwarted by a United Dairies milk float.. The ending is mercifully light on trying to make any sense, and the title of the film was devised to fit the theme song, hence its being (again) very laboured.
Not as bad as all that, but the only character worth your empathy is Mai Zetterling's, and she disappears for most of the movie.
Best watched with subtitles and the sound off, as the musical director appears to have been.
Richard Widmark is a US Air Force Policeman (Sgt Joe Lawrence) with all the angles in post-WWII Berlin (interesting footage) who, for the love of Mai Zetterling (German orphans' schoolmistress, can't get more worthy than that), decides to go in with George Cole (as a British MP sergeant - doing a RADA McScots accent) to steal a USAF DC-3 or 4 carrying NAZI GOLD back to England (more interesting footage).
The setup of Sgt Lawrence as being so desperate to rescue Mai Zetterling he goes rogue for all the right reasons is very laboured. The actual caper itself, and the unexpected variations of the original plan are pretty good, considering Nigel Patrick's (always best as a baddie) getaway is thwarted by a United Dairies milk float.. The ending is mercifully light on trying to make any sense, and the title of the film was devised to fit the theme song, hence its being (again) very laboured.
Not as bad as all that, but the only character worth your empathy is Mai Zetterling's, and she disappears for most of the movie.
Best watched with subtitles and the sound off, as the musical director appears to have been.