Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.
Cinematography
European locations shot like a paranoid travelogue
Acting
Mitchum's sleepy menace in every frame
Director
Sheldon Reynolds
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sheldon Reynolds shot this simultaneously with a TV series using the same premise, essentially making a feature-length pilot before that was common practice.
Made just eleven years after WWII ended, the film treats Nazi collaboration as a live wound rather than settled history—European audiences would have recognized real types in the blackmailed victims.
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