When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.
Acting
Turner's ice-queen vulnerability steals every scene
Cinematography
Glorious Dutch locations masquerading as occupied territory
Direction
Reinhardt's surprisingly tense espionage sequences
Director
Gottfried Reinhardt
Clark Gable
Col. Pieter Deventer
Lana Turner
Carla Van Oven
Victor Mature
'The Scarf'
Louis Calhern
Gen. Ten Eyck
O.E. Hasse
Col. Helmuth Dietrich
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Gen. Charles Larraby (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
Ian Carmichael
Capt. Jackie Lawson
Niall MacGinnis
Blackie
Nora Swinburne
The Scarf's Mother
Roland Culver
Gen. Warsleigh
Christopher Rhodes
Chris
Mona Washbourne
Waitress (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gable demanded Turner as his co-star after their explosive chemistry in 'Homecoming'—studio obliged despite her being 23 years his junior.
Shot on location in Holland mere years after liberation; locals reportedly wept watching Nazi scenes filmed in their actual streets. Released as 'The Scarlet and the Black' in some markets to avoid confusion with a 1954 documentary.
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