Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Robert J. Maxwell The women in this lackadaisical mystery are Genevieve Page and Ingrid Thulin, two perfect noses, as if designed by a sculptor of exquisite taste or by a cartoonist suffering from OCD. Cripes they are two good-looking babes. Page is French and she seemed to look more ravishing with the passing years. Catch her some twenty years later in "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes." Thulin, a Swedish ung flicka, was part of Ingmar Bergman's company. She was as somber with him as she is cheerful here. Her voice with its Nordic overtones is a treat to listen to. Some syllables sound like those gracefully arching bridges held up by spiderwebs look.Both of these women fling themselves at the trench-coated Robert Mitchum, Page as casually as she might use a Kleenex and Thulin, later, with more serious intent, although she's known Mitchum for less than a day. I know this is hard to believe but things like this do happen. Just the other day a beautiful Swedish blond in the supermarket glanced at me and swooned with delight. Pheromones, I guess.Actually, I don't know what the hell Mitchum is looking for in this vertiginous plot. He's been a full-time press agent for an uber-rich philanthropist in France. The old fellow drops dead and all sorts of mysterious figures approach Mitchum, asking if the departed uttered any last words. Mitchum devotes the rest of the film to finding out what this character was up to. Something to do with blackmail. The search takes him from the Riviera to Germany and Sweden. Along the way he bumps into more mysterious oddballs, stumbles across a murder, and so on -- very noirish. But I don't know why he involved himself in this mystery in the first place or who is paying him for doing it.But despite the trappings and the central figure, it's not really a classsical noir film. It's in color, nobody carries a gun, everyone is too neatly dressed and groomed, the air doesn't reek of desperation. The ladies are gloriously made up. The musical score is an over-ripe symphony that sometimes complements the events on screen and more often draws attention to itself. Mitchum, with his bulk and stature, is a commanding presence but he isn't a tough guy here, not a cynical brute, and nothing in his dialog -- or anybody else's -- is worth remembering. The direction is straightforward, functional, and a little leaden. And, alas, the ending solves nothing but paves the way for a sequel or a television series.

filmalamosa The story for this film is lame and uninteresting. A bunch of Nazi double agents are going to be exposed 10 years after the war.. The writer(s) obviously didn't know much about neutral countries like Sweden and Switzerland...why would Hitler have picked one man to seize power in those countries? These countries were neutral and made no difference to the war. In any case how could one man per country seize power or make any difference at all...it is all so incredibly stupid.This film is bad... after about a half hour I was ready to pull the plug...but didn't. It is richly filmed and might make a good travelogue but what a bunch of lousy writing and directing.There is no intrigue in Foreign Intrigue...everything is listless with some sort of jazz sound track completely incongruent to the action... Even the Swedish girl falling in love with Michell is flat and unconvincing... maybe she is a bad actress or was badly directed? BOTH! Robert Mitchum cruises through the film on Valium with his eyes half shut.Avoid this movie!

jdwilcox Why this film has not been issued on video is puzzling. It has an unusual and compelling plot, attractive locales (shot on location in Europe) and features the inimitable Robert Mitchum. Derived from the television series of the same name, it captures the "take me somewhere far away and adventuresome" escapism of the time. The musical underscore (the original TV introductory piano concerto and a coronet forward jazz theme) continues to this day to swim in my head. Mitchum plays a reluctant investigative patsy persuaded against his better judgment by interpol intelligence to help track down the perpetrators of a scheme to blackmail various politicians who had secretly agreed to ease the invasion of their respective countries by the Nazis. While the film lacks a true denouement (it ends with the Mitchum character about to rendezvous with the prime suspect), the photography, the acting and above all its ingratiating style certainly have made it memorable in the mind of this viewer.

puterpro Saw it at a drive in movie in Phoenix on a rainy night (which is pretty rare for Phoenix). I think that environment added to the feeling "intrigue". It was the first spy movie I ever saw. The plot was complex and engaging. What added significantly to the feeling of the movie was the use of the bongos beating alone before the strings began a haunting theme in the film score.