Starring Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds

There was a team of formidable talents ranged behind this thriller, an ingenious tale of spies and treachery set in World War Two in England. Fritz Lang, of Metropolis and Dr. Mabuse fame, directed from a screenplay by Seton I. Miller, an Oscar winner who scripted Scarface. Miller's script for tonight's film conveys faithfully the special atmosphere of the Grahame Greene novel on which it was based. Ray Milland, reverting to his original British nationality, plays a young man whose troubles begin when he wins a cake as prize in a raffle at a garden fete organised in aid of something called 'The Mothers of Free Nations.'
In a minor part, Dan Duryea offers an early sketch of his later famous cold-eyed killer.