During the Second World War, Rose, a young smart missionary, who after the murder of her brother, goes in a boat sailing to Germany, with a courageous trader, with whom she makes a plan to attack a German boat, the thing that challenges them.
Humphrey Bogart finally won his Best Actor Oscar. It's an amusing performance, though it doesn't compare to his work in High Sierra, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, In a Lonely Place, The Caine Mutiny and a handful of other indelible turns.
And so Mr. Huston merits credit for putting this fantastic tale on a level of sly, polite kidding and generally keeping it there, while going about the happy business of engineering excitement and visual thrills.
Daily Telegraph (UK)
March 03, 2011
[A] grand, propulsive and plumly-restored slice of Technicolor derring-do.
The direction is often questionable, but the screenplay (by James Agee, John Collier, Huston, and Peter Viertel from C.S. Forester's novel) is a model of tight construction.
Huston understands the majestic savagery of his surroundings well enough to let it exert some dramatic pressure on what is primarily a buoyant romantic comedy.
