A relic of America's sorrier past: a thriller that works well as an espionage drama, but centres on the Red Scare prevalent among the same members of Hollywood's film community who favoured exile (or worse) for those who refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee. George Murphy, just before he quit acting for politics, is the inspector in charge of the case. Boffins of today will be amused at the size of the 'high-speed electronic calculator' everyone's after; hardly the sort of thing a Soviet agent could put in his pocket and spirit away. Originally released in Britain as The Crime of the Century.


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