John Drake plays a grim and dangerous type of Russian roulette with members of a spy ring to discover which one has betrayed a British spymaster who has disappeared but is believed to be still alive, despite efforts to make it appear that he is dead. Everything about the death of a man named Standfast (VINCENT HARDING) appears to be conclusive. His burned body has been found after a car crash In Switzerland. But John Drake (PATRICK McGOOHAN), sent to investigate, discovers the one clue to prove that the body was not Standfast's: his teeth.The Swiss police chief, Major Schulman (PAUL EDDINGTON), has a shrewd idea that Standfaet was, or is, the British spymaster responsible for the control of a ring of spies in Switzerland, He strongly suspects, too, that Drake is not a legal representative, as he is pretending to be, checking on Standfast's death. He does, in fact, tell Drake point-blank that he believes him to be a secret agent. watch
In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell Torrey (John Wayne), and the destroyer Cassidy, under acting commander Lieutenant (jg) William McConnell (Thomas Tryon), are two of a handful of ships that escape the destruction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Under Torrey's command, the tiny fleet of a dozen ships carries out its orders to seek out and engage the enemy fleet. But lack of fuel and a daring maneuver (but tragic miscalculation) by Torrey causes his ship to be seriously damaged. He's relieved of command and assigned to a desk job routing convoys in the shakeup following the attack, and his exec and oldest friend, Commander Paul Eddington (Kirk Douglas), is reassigned after a brawl, the result of his anger after identifyi watch