Decent set-up, dodgy development.

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2019)

Starts quite well, but grows increasingly muddled and unconvincing the longer you keep watching the incidents pile up. Bosley Crowther noted that "there is no logic in this wild-goose chase." Echoes 39 Steps and looks forward to North by North West. What is interesting in retrospect is the suggestion that there might have been, or actually were, a high proportion of high profile Nazi sympathisers in America, prior to Pearl Harbour and Hitler's declaration of war. It is tempting to list the top half dozen, but I'll only mention Henry Ford and Ezra Pound. In the film characters such as those are represented by the wealthy and witty Mr Tobin, and the even wealthier charitable Mrs Sutton. One reviewer mentions the strange reluctance of the bad guys to terminate the hero, Barry Kane, a good citizen and non-saboteur, when he's in their power. In fact, it's a little difficult to work out who is on which side as the story progresses. The real star of this film is Baby Susie Brown, who steals the show as far as I'm concerned.