Nonureva Really Surprised!

Steineded How sad is this?

ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

LeonLouisRicci Odd Combination of Wartime Espionage, Political Intrigue, Nationalism, Film-Noir, and Slapstick. Not Surprisingly Not All of it Worked so Well. Deborah Kerr is an Irish Beauty who Hates the Brits and is Loathsome of Cromwell (much humor is made of this) and is Out to Join the IRA for Some Payback.It's Convoluted Plot Waivers, Confuses, and the Humor Never Meshes. This is One that the Parts are Better than the Whole. Trevor Howard is a Doting and Bland Waste and has a Lot of Screen Time and that Doesn't Help. The Nazi Spies are the Best Part and the Scenes where They are in Full Evil Mode are what Keeps the Movie Afloat. Along with the Effervescent Kerr.Only the Brits Could Find a Horse and Buggy Chase (this is WWII not Sherlock Holmes) Very Exciting and the Bathroom Fight in the End is Just Out of Place and Embarrassing. Overall, Worth a Watch for Kerr, but Film-Noir, Spy, and WWII Fans are Likely to be Divided. Offbeat and Historically Interesting Enough to be Something Special, but as Entertainment and a Full Fledged Film, Not So Much.

kenjha A feisty young Irish woman brought up to hate the English plans to join the IRA to put her hatred into action. It veers unevenly between comedy and thriller. The comedy is not funny and the thrills are nothing to write home about. However, the biggest problem is that the script lacks a narrative flow. It seems that the story is being made up as it goes along, rambling on without rhyme or reason. This film and "Black Narcissus" helped Kerr become a star, paving her way to a Hollywood career. She's fine, but Howard is somewhat bland as a British agent. Launder, who started as a writer and wrote "The Lady Vanishes," seems less comfortable in the director's chair here.

T Y Deborah Kerr plays an impressionable Irish gal who can't wait to lash out at Britain, but her first negative, naive traipse through England forces to her grow a bit and reconsider. This movie is three parts Hitchcock, one part noir and one part wartime propaganda. Think of it as "Uppity Irish know-it-all descends 39 steps." The noir aspect is the best stuff here; the cinematography being much, much finer than the script. The camera work is way above average. As with Hitchcock, the shenanigans continue in an arbitrary way, daisy-chaining through an arbitrary number (too many) of arbitrary intrigues, in different (arbitrary) locations, until the thing is long enough to end. The quality of the dramatic engagement is rather low. In the films clumsiest moments, the sequences require a distracting number of Kerr's voice-over "thoughts.' Perhaps the most unusual part of the movie is when ownership of a dead sympathizer falls to Kerr at the worst possible time, and she is forced to devise a ruse which the movie pursues to a rather morbid end.Just how Trevor Howard can make anyone abandon their stereotypes of Britons is a head scratcher. He plays a stiff, humorless, passionless mainstream Brit. He's a complete non-entity. Howard flouncing down a stairway, arms aflutter, is one of the most risible moments ever put on film.I confuse scenes from this with "I Know Where I'm Going" (also about an insufferable traveler, also unsuccessful as to why audiences should identify with/endure its unpleasant heroine) and "A Canterbury Tale" (also about travels through England, with ravishing imagery). It's gone from your mind the second it's over for the usual reason; its conceits are better than its concerns.

Michael O'Keefe Frank Launder directs an enjoyable comedic drama starring the lovely Deborah Kerr, who plays Bridie, an unsophisticated Irish lass with an inherited hatred toward the British. When she reaches 21, she leaves her tiny village and travels alone to Dublin in hopes of signing up to fight the British only to find out that Ireland is not exactly fighting the Brits at all. She returns home disappointed, but still full of fight. Somehow she gets involved with a Nazi secret agent and agrees to carryout his mission against their common foe.Scenery and atmosphere fitting with the intrigue. Kerr is excellent and has a way of playing comedy with a straight face. Or maybe its just the role that lacks sophistication. There is no doubt about her camera appeal. Also starring are: Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Norman Shelley, Tom Macaulay and Liam Redmond.