This odd WW II espionage item harks back to the 1960s and films such as THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR and ORDERS TO KILL. Ed Harris is an American agent sent from Britain to occupied Paris, charged with making sure that Eric Stoltz, a captured American officer with secret information about the
upcoming Normandy invasion, doesn't talk. Horst Buchholz, Helmut Berger, and Max von Sydow play the Germans Harris must fool as he impersonates a German officer, trying to get close enough to Stoltz to ensure his silence by whatever means necessary. Unfortunately, this fairly routine spy drama has
almost no action. It was the first and only directorial effort from Jonathan Sanger, who produced THE ELEPHANT MAN and the remarkable FRANCES.
