Directed by Edward Dmytryck
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
The sight of Humphrey Bogart as a priest in China is a bit too much, but it becomes apparent within the first few minutes that he is not really a priest. The way he flirts with Gene Tierney makes that obvious. However, his real identity is not revealed until nearly halfway through the movie in an awkward flashback. It's as if the screenwriters did not trust the viewers intelligence to figure things out. Well, now that we are back in familiar Bogie territory, a hard drinking, gambling downed flyer posing as a priest trying to get out of China, the movie is nearly over. Tierney disappears for way too long, only to show up towards the end to resolve her feelings for the priest. Dmytryck and Bogie fail to repeat the magic of the previous year's The Caine Mutiny.
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