Assignment: Paris Reviews

Hard-hitting espionage thriller has Andrews as a reporter assigned to the Budapest office of the New York Herald Tribune by editor Sanders to help fellow reporter Toren support a story that Hungarian government plotters are trying to make a deal with Yugoslav president Tito to overthrow the communist dictatorship. Andrews finds that an American businessman has been arrested as a spy and has died in prison but not before leaving a photo showing Tito conferring with the plotters. Andrews manages to smuggle the photo back to Paris before being arrested and beaten into admitting that he is a spy. Through the intervention of another man wanted by the communists, Andrews finds freedom and returns to love, Toren, and happy editor Sanders. Tension and suspense are held throughout the film by attention to details, the surveillance of Red spies and censors, and a dozen close calls with death, ably directed by Parrish. There is an eerie feeling to this film in that much of what is profiled came into very real existence four years later with the the abortive Hungarian Revolution.