This really was pretty poor. If I hadn't literally seen him in his trademark cameo I wouldn't have thought Hitchcock directed this. Half the time I had no idea what was happening. The plot is nonsense. A professor pretends to defect to meet another professor in the Eastern Bloc, and his fiance joins him on a whim because why wouldn't you defect to Communism after 5 minutes thought? Wouldn't the spy network already have assets who could meet this professor already in place? There's absolutely zero chemistry between Julie Andrews and Paul Newman making it even more ludicrous she would defect with him. Wish I hadn't wasted my time.
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This really was pretty poor. If I hadn't literally seen him in his trademark cameo I wouldn't have thought Hitchcock directed this. Half the time I had no idea what was happening. The plot is nonsense. A professor pretends to defect to meet another professor in the Eastern Bloc, and his fiance joins him on a whim because why wouldn't you defect to Communism after 5 minutes thought? Wouldn't the spy network already have assets who could meet this professor already in place? There's absolutely zero chemistry between Julie Andrews and Paul Newman making it even more ludicrous she would defect with him. Wish I hadn't wasted my time.