In a mash-up of various Humphrey Bogart starring vehicles, Errol Flynn is a pilot in Istanbul who falls in love with Cornell Borchers and some smuggled diamonds. Then there's a fire, the diamonds are lost, Miss Borchers is dead and Flynn flies off for half a decade. When he returns, he goes about recovering the diamonds, and runs into Miss Borchers, who's amnesiac and married to Torin Thatcher.
And so it goes. There's a singing piano player -- it's Nat King Cole performing his hit version of "When I Fall in Love", Werner Klemperer as a sociopath who breaks into rooms and crawls when he isn't slinging knives, John Bentley as a Turkish Inspector -- non-corrupt -- and other echoes of Bogey. The one original note in the script is Leif Erickson and Peggy Knudsen as a bickering Ugly American couple, and a welcome change it is, to know that fifteen years after Huston et al. perfected the Bogart persona, there was still something to add to the tales of international intrigue besides some filming in Turkey.
In short, there's certainly nothing wrong with the movie, as had been demonstrated the last fifteen times it had been made.
And so it goes. There's a singing piano player -- it's Nat King Cole performing his hit version of "When I Fall in Love", Werner Klemperer as a sociopath who breaks into rooms and crawls when he isn't slinging knives, John Bentley as a Turkish Inspector -- non-corrupt -- and other echoes of Bogey. The one original note in the script is Leif Erickson and Peggy Knudsen as a bickering Ugly American couple, and a welcome change it is, to know that fifteen years after Huston et al. perfected the Bogart persona, there was still something to add to the tales of international intrigue besides some filming in Turkey.
In short, there's certainly nothing wrong with the movie, as had been demonstrated the last fifteen times it had been made.