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Flaw at the heart of the film


Normally when I watch a film I try to suspend my flaky analytical powers and accept the story as presented. But the immediate and insurmountable problem here is that not for one minute did I believe they would cast Anna Neagle as a Nazi sympathiser. It was simply asking too much of this particular member of the audience to not only suspend his disbelief but to lock it in a sealed steel case and sink it in to the depths of the Atlantic.
But I did enjoy the film for what it was - well cast, well acted with a decent, if predictable, story and the requisite number of clichés.

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The notion that the Nazis would trust any Briton (let alone one whose entire family is in military service and whose treachery is public knowledge and whose every move is being shadowed by British and Canadian intelligence) for the purposes of vital special operations is so incredible that it doesn't bear thinking about. And all they wanted her to do was make one piddling telephone call as a decoy!

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