A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Acting
Joan Hackett deserved better than fridge-stuffing
Cinematography
Switzerland never looked more suspiciously beautiful
Writing
Dialogue that thinks it's smarter than you (it might be)
Director
Sheldon Reynolds
Patrick O'Neal
Richard Cutting
Joan Hackett
Dominique Laurant
John Gielgud
Curt Valayan
Herbert Lom
Matt Wilson
Eric Portman
Notary
Peter van Eyck
Walter Green
Oskar Homolka
Inspector Ruff
Leon Greene
The Big Man
Kent Smith
Mr. Eversley
Philip Ober
Bohlen
Fifi D'Orsay
Mrs. Hennie
Éva Szörényi
Landlady (as Eva Soreny)
Martin Miller
Police Chief (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sheldon Reynolds directed the 1950s Sherlock Holmes TV series, which explains the obsessive attention to procedural detail and slightly stale atmosphere.
This is peak 'insurance fraud as sexy crime' cinema—before 2008 made financial corruption deeply unsexy forever.
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