Fritz Lang and Graham Greene were mutual admirers so Lang was initially only too delighted to accept Paramount's offer to film the latter's novel. However, he hated the shambles the studio made of it and as he later recalled, "I saw it recently on television, where it was cut to pieces, and I fell asleep."
Still, bad Lang is usually better than no Lang, it evokes agreeable memories of classic Lang's like the seance in 'Doctor Mabuse', the blind man in 'M' and the exploding room in 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'; while it's always good to see Ray Milland, Dan Duryea makes a memorably sneering villain in a wing collar and the backdrop supposedly depicting wartime London is charmingly unreal.
Still, bad Lang is usually better than no Lang, it evokes agreeable memories of classic Lang's like the seance in 'Doctor Mabuse', the blind man in 'M' and the exploding room in 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'; while it's always good to see Ray Milland, Dan Duryea makes a memorably sneering villain in a wing collar and the backdrop supposedly depicting wartime London is charmingly unreal.