This routine spy thriller set in World War Two Paris and involving double-agents and D-Day is the sort of thing that belonged to the Sixties rather than the Eighties. Ed Harris is the double-agent at the centre of the story, and Eric Stoltz is a too-young-looking American lieutenant with knowledge of the D-Day plans who is, of course, captured by the Nazis. A starry cast includes Horst Buchholz, Helmut Berger and Max Von Sydow for the Germans and Patrick Stewart and Graham Crowden for the British. The film looks good and is well shot by Freddie Francis; but the uninspiring script and the plodding pace set by debutant director Jonathan Sanger trap it in tedium. Max Von Sydow's keenly edged portrayal is another compensation.


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