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The acting in this movie is really good.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

TRIPLE CROSS is a slightly unwieldy but generally workable WW2 thriller with a starring role for Christopher Plummer, hot off the success of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The film is directed by Terence Young and has a bright and breezy feel to it which makes it feel like a Bond imitation, particularly in the early scenes of Plummer's womanising. However, it also happens to be based on a true story and sees Plummer's safebreaker recruited by the Nazis to work as a spy against the British; little do they know he's a double agent informing on them as well. Plummer feels a bit awkward as the lead, but a Euro-centric supporting cast keeps the interest high, with good turns for Jess Hahn (dubbed with a Yorkshire accent!), Howard Vernon, Claudine Auger, Gert Frobe, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, and the great Yul Brynner in an interesting role. The story is all over the place tonally, but interesting and unique enough to see you through until the end.

I seem to have missed this film over the years, despite once working in a video shop with it on the shelves. I've just caught it on TV and I'm glad I never bothered with it before. It looks amateurish and clumsy, and it didn't help that the print I saw was grainy and cheap-looking. This may just have been the TV company's copy though. Plummer is OK, but the talents of Yul Brynner and Trevor Howard seem wasted. The annoying thing is that it tells a real 'Boy's Own' adventure story, much of which is true, and it could have been a really engrossing and enjoyable film if it had been directed and photographed with more care. Next time it comes on TV I'll find something else to do.

Disappointing 1966 film with Christopher Plummer as an imprisoned safe cracker who begins dealing in espionage and counter-espionage, respectively with Nazi Germany and England.Plummer is extremely cocky in the film and in certain scenes acts as if he is Captain Von Trapp of "The Sound of Music" fame the year before.Romy Schneider, a German operative, is given little to do here other than some bed scenes with Plummer. Goldfinger's Gert Frobe, a suspicious German officer, is relatively subdued here. Yul Brynner, as a major German officer, throws his weight around only to be victimized in the end in the plot to assassinate Hitler.The film can become confusing at certain intervals as you may not know whose allegiance Plummer really is for.The ending at the bar is contrived and really inane.

Eddie Chapman was a career criminal.A safe breaker stealing from mugs like you and me because it paid well and he never fancied getting his hands dirty with real work like the rest of us.He was a hard man from the north - east of England who ran with some of the most ruthless criminals of his day.He wasn't "Raffles",he wasn't in any way,shape or form like the upper - class knob Mr C.Plummer turns him into.His sole ambition was to be let out of prison and he did what he considered he had to do to achieve that aim.Conning the Germans,playing them off against the Brits,he had a whale of a time as an international swordsman on both sides of the channel.Or so Terence Young would have us believe. Was Mr Young just another victim of Mr.Chapman's self - mythologising? Decide for yourself by watching "Triple Cross" with Mr G.Frobe as the pragmatic Nazi ex - cop for whom Chapman is just a shade too good to be true and Mr Y.Brynner as the anti - Nazi German officer,a breed that proliferated as the war neared its end.Where were they when we needed them in 1939? The movie suffers from some serious arse - licking towards its hero who is shown to be suave,sophisticated,erudite and awfully handsome.A positive dreamboat as he drops into the arms of German Intelligence - a gift horse,almost,as Herr Frobe rightly suspects. Based on Mr Chapman's perhaps slightly biased autobiography,"Triple Cross" unlike "David Copperfield" leaves us in no doubt from page one as to who the hero of the story is going to be.