Agree with previous review, would just add this episode is more like Film-Noir than other episodes that are like the then current more late 50's, early 60's. Interesting foreign flavor to the cast. Norwegian girl Anna-Marie, Dutchman John Van Dreelen, Frenchman Marcel Dalio. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. showcases his range in acting as he uses disguises and accents in this episode.
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Behind the Iron Curtain
searchanddestroy-123 December 2015
AS you have already got it, this is an anti-red story, as many other ones we had between the early fifties and late eighties...Our lead Stu Bailey - alone - is in mission in Eastern Europe (Budapest) to find an acquaintance of his, a friend he met in the past. He is hired by the government to contact this old friend who is supposed to have important information. So, Stu sneaks around to find this pal who seems to have totally disappeared. Is he dead, in jail? You don't avoid every cliché here, against communist regime: spies every where, oppression, suspicion... But not a bad episode, at least not worst than another one. But not the episode which I will remind the most, for sure. One last thing, no humour here, no cool jazzy atmosphere either, no lightness, a rather dark story instead. Like a classic movie.
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