What a dull movie. MacLean's original novel wasn't perfect but it was full of pace, intrigue, twists and decent characters. It threw you right into it - the hero was on the run from page one. Here dull Richard Widmark rocks up, gets a mission, ambles into Vienna, then across the iron curtain.
There's some decent chase stuff in the middle and at the end - the final chase isn't bad. It needed more of his. There's strong actors.
But it's boring. Really boring. Trudge, trudge. Actors with accents. I couldn't tell the characters apart. One hot girl and less obviously hot girl. Widmark. Some Europeans.
Location filming helps but it's in black and white so even that isn't too great.
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