Mary Mackenzie is a fashion reporter who stumbles across a murder. This makes her think abut her old boyfriend, Phillip Friend, who was in British intelligence, and his work dealing with professional spies -- the ones who are in it purely for the money. as she searches for answers, she enlists the help of detective Leslie Dwyer.
What do you have when you have skilled, even excellent actors, and the people behind the screen -- the writers, the directors, he cinematographers -- do their bits in the cheapest, laziest way? Director Joseph Sterling doesn't even bother with decent editing; conversation is carried on in pretty much medium long take to avoid the time and expense of new set-ups. The performers offer some life, but the movie, as a whole, is dull and lifeless. Too many plot points are talked out instead of being shown.
What do you have when you have skilled, even excellent actors, and the people behind the screen -- the writers, the directors, he cinematographers -- do their bits in the cheapest, laziest way? Director Joseph Sterling doesn't even bother with decent editing; conversation is carried on in pretty much medium long take to avoid the time and expense of new set-ups. The performers offer some life, but the movie, as a whole, is dull and lifeless. Too many plot points are talked out instead of being shown.