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Circle of Deception

Circle of Deception - 1961

As rare as hen’s teeth this, my copy coming from a Video Trader in Arizona. This is a great British film based on the true incidences of SOE agents being dropped into pre-D-Day France, and then allowed to be caught. The plan being that they would be tortured and give out false invasion details to the Germans. The Agents having been selected (against their knowledge) because they were seemed likely to break under torture. The British officer in charge of this scheme is played by the erstwhile Harry Andrews. The Agent played by American Bradford Dillman. Suzy Kendall (a famous 1950s fashion model) is the ATS girl who is a go-between. The rest of the cast are not well known, although Hammer fans will recognise Michael Ripper as a French resistance fighter. The details of the SOE training, graphic torture and eventual escape are well presented, and the film is genuinely suspenseful. The film also contains a scene “spoofed” to great effect in Top Secret the Val Kilmer film. It shows a duo of thugs used by the SS to torture Dillman, one a huge vicious ape of a man, the other a sinister blind man who “works by the sense of touch”. This film is definitely not a Boy’s Own adventure. None of the main characters are particularly sympathetic, and a sense of gloom hangs over the whole film.

Worth seeing though and a pity it has never been shown on UK television.
2/12/2005, 3:11 am Send Email to warfilmman
 


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