Based on the novel "Call for the Dead", by John Le Carré.
An English civil servant is denounced as a spy and dies subsequently. The official verdict is suicide, but an intelligence officer resigns in order to further investigate the affair on his own (helped by a retired policeman).
A film that somehow extracts impure cinematic narrative fun out of dated thriller (and drama) conventions. James Mason is at his usual best. The odd bossa nova soundtrack adds to the flavor of the proceedings. There is not an ounce of realism in it, but it provides (as Christopher Mulrooney has pointed out, if I understand him correctly) a lucid commentary on the various forms that communism has taken on historically and the various illusions it has engendered.
Rating: 51
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