Perhaps it's just me, but doesn't Robert Taylor look awfully old for this role? Now he wasn't THAT old, but the late 1950s, he went from looking handsome and vigorous to very tired. And, in general, so did his performances. Here, he plays a disaffected American pilot who responds to his war experiences by dropping off the map. Instead of returning home to his adoring wife (Dorothy Malone), he moves to Madrid and sends a letter to his wife--asking for a divorce. However, Malone is not content to just do this and so she goes to Spain to try to figure out what's happened to a once excellent husband. Once there, he seems happy to see her--but also without direction and occasionally a bit of a jerk.
Into this boring reunion comes a smuggler who offers to pay Taylor a ton of money. He refuses it but his young partner (Jack Lord) gets involved. But, because Lord is involved with a young lady, Taylor does the macho thing--punching Lord and flying this mission instead--even though he has PTSD due to his combat experiences. Will Taylor make it alive? Does anyone really care? The biggest problem about this film is that it's hard to really give a darn about Taylor. He seems, at times, whiny and hard to like. And, after just a bit of this, you wonder why his wife would even want him back in the first place. Overall, a time-passer and not much more.
Into this boring reunion comes a smuggler who offers to pay Taylor a ton of money. He refuses it but his young partner (Jack Lord) gets involved. But, because Lord is involved with a young lady, Taylor does the macho thing--punching Lord and flying this mission instead--even though he has PTSD due to his combat experiences. Will Taylor make it alive? Does anyone really care? The biggest problem about this film is that it's hard to really give a darn about Taylor. He seems, at times, whiny and hard to like. And, after just a bit of this, you wonder why his wife would even want him back in the first place. Overall, a time-passer and not much more.