Advantages: Great cinematography Disadvantages: Somewhat old-fashioned
...lack of news that his foreign correspondents in Europe are provided. He randomly picks a journalist, Johnny Jones, from his office to cover Europe from London. Jones becomes known as Huntley Haverstock and is told to track down Mr Van Meer, the leader of the Universal Peace Party at a lunch held in his honour. He meets Mr Van Meer outside the lunch venue, but somewhere in between there and the lunch, Mr Van Meer is 'called away on urgent business'.
... ...meeting in Holland and witnesses his murder. He chases his killer, accompanied by Carol, the daughter of one of the leading lights of the Peace Party and a journalist, Scott ffoliot. They don't manage to catch the murderer, but Haverstock finds out a lot more than he expected, something that could threaten the roots of society. Actors/characters
Joel McCrea and Larraine Day as Haverstock and Carol Fisher do an adequate job, but are not outstanding. ...
sunmeilan 14.12.2005
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