Clark Gable stars in a wartime espionage drama which has as many thrills as surprises. It is based on the controversy which still rages about whether the Allied paratroop assault at Arnhem during WWII was betrayed.
Lana Turner is Carla Van Oven, the Secret Service worker suspected of giving information to the enemy, while Victor Mature is a freelance Resistance leader (‘The Scarf’) whose methods are sometimes unorthodox.
The film was shot on location in the Netherlands amid some delightful Dutch Delft settings.
Gable – starring as Dutch army officer Colonel Pieter Deventer who has escaped the Gestapo to help the British in the war against the Germans – was 53 when he made this film, and to the Dutch locals, he was a superstar. During shooting in a small Dutch town, director Gottfried Reinhardt asked for 800 extras. Three thousand turned up, most of them just to catch a glimpse of Gable.
Colonel Pieter Deventer
Clark Gable Carla Van Oven
Lana Turner The Scarf
Victor Mature General Ten Eyck
Louis Calhern Colonel Helmuth Dietrich
O.E. Hasse General Charles Larraby
Wilfrid Hyde-White Captain Jackie Lawson
Ian Carmichael Blackie
Niall MacGinnis The Scarf’s Mother
Nora Swinburne General Warsleigh
Roland Culver Pop
Leslie Weston Chris
Christopher Rhodes Jan’s Grandmother
Lily Kann Jan
Brian Smith Captain Von Stanger
Anton Diffring
Director
Gottfried Reinhardt
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Colonel Pieter Deventer
General Charles Larraby
