The package is all neatly tied together with dedicated, realistic direction from Hathaway, a master of this kind of movie. It also stars Stephen McNally as Colonel Mark Cagle, Karl Malden as Sergeant Ernie Guelvada and James Millican as Mike’s friend Sam Carew. Tyrone Power stars as US Department of State courier Mike Kells, an American agent who is up to his ears in espionage, Soviet agents and seductive women, in director Henry Hathaway’s slick and satisfying 1952 film noir-style spy thriller.Ģ0th Century Fox’s typical Fifties espionage film is set in Trieste, with a complex, tricky and teasing plot about Russian plans to invade Yugoslavia.Ī well-handled Thirties Hitchcock-style suspense thriller, it is loaded with a full cargo of exciting train sequences, tense scenes of intrigue and suspenseful chases.Įven Power is more high-powered than usual, Patricia Neal (as Joan Ross) and Hildegarde Neff (as Janine Betki) are excellent, and note the excellent support cast, with scene-stealing Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Hugh Marlowe and E G Marshall in small parts. Diplomatic Courier ***½ (1952, Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegarde Neff, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 4862
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