Port Afrique

When a thriller has two songs in the opening quarter of an hour you know you are going to have a problem.Add to this a very bland leading man and you have a recipe for boredom.Additionally the climax is a real letdown.So the only real plus is the excellent colour cinematography.James Haynes features for once as a villain.

This film I am afraid has not stood the test of time. I would like to say I can remember the plot but I would be lying. I am sure the actors were great but I cannot remember.

Rip Reardon (Philip Carey) is a guy who has a strange disorder...disappearing and reappearing leg syndrome! I say this because throughout the story, the one-legged man limps in some scenes and not in others!

Regardless, Rip's back from the war and when he returns home to see his wife, she is freshly dead. The police say it was suicide but Rip knows it must have been murder. So, for the rest of the film, Rip runs about punching people until he learns the truth!

The bottom line is that this murder mystery isn't very mysterious and the acting is generally poor. It is, at best, a time-passer and is a bland film which is easy to skip as well.

A British murder mystery; A story set in North Africa in July 1945. A returning American pilot who lost his leg during the war tries to prove his wife was murdered, but begins to fall for a singer he suspects of being involved. This is a rather hollow drama. Pier Angeli has good presence as the nightclub singer, but over-showcasing her singing talent at the beginning gets the film off to an awkward start. The film has a plodding feel, not helped by a less than inspiring performance from the lead, Philip Carey. Nevertheless, with accomplished cinematographer turned director Rudolph Mate at the helm, the film has an exotic look.

I loved this movie very much. I bought it just to hear Pier Angeli sing. I give her 10 stars just for her voice alone. She captures your attention from the moment she enters the picture till the very end. I do remember that the film has Pier Angeli portraying a singer who is wrongly convicted of murder. I loved her conviction in the scene where she pleads with one gentlemen who is an authoritative figure in the film that she didn't kill the woman. I believed her.

This movie should be sold in large quantities on Amazon.com and other websites that sell old movies. It is a shame that I had to buy it off someone on Ebay.

This is definitely one of Pier Angeli's best roles. It is my favorite without a doubt.