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ओरिजिनल टाइटल: The Secret Ways

1961
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1956 के हंगरी विद्रोह के दौरान, एक अमेरिकी भाड़े के सैनिक को हंगरी के एक प्रतिरोध नेता को सोवियत कब्जे वाले बुडापेस्ट से बाहर निकालने के लिए काम पर रखा जाता है।1956 के हंगरी विद्रोह के दौरान, एक अमेरिकी भाड़े के सैनिक को हंगरी के एक प्रतिरोध नेता को सोवियत कब्जे वाले बुडापेस्ट से बाहर निकालने के लिए काम पर रखा जाता है।1956 के हंगरी विद्रोह के दौरान, एक अमेरिकी भाड़े के सैनिक को हंगरी के एक प्रतिरोध नेता को सोवियत कब्जे वाले बुडापेस्ट से बाहर निकालने के लिए काम पर रखा जाता है।

निर्देशक
- Phil Karlson
- Richard Widmark
लेखक
- Alistair MacLean
- Jean Hazlewood
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6.2/10

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निर्देशक
- Phil Karlson
- Richard Widmark
लेखक
- Alistair MacLean
- Jean Hazlewood
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7museumofdave

A Triumph of Style Over Substance

There of so many echoes of The Third Man in this film, but the essential plot lacks narrative cohesion--the dazzling atmospherics of decadent Europe after WWII, like Reed's film, are rich in dark shadows, fogs and dripping walls, dizzying stairwells and dismal foggy streets--but the plot, unfortunately, is a little foggy to begin with, and although the viewer slowly comes some comprehension concerning Widmark's task to finesse the escape of an anti-communist leader from behind the iron curtain, there are numerous lures that sidetrack him, most of them of the female. Widmark's performance is characteristically compelling, and there are some new faces on the screen deservedly demanding attention. Another positive aspect of this studio film is that most of the faces are new ones to American viewers, and Widmark's relationships to each are complex although, like the plot, sometimes confusing.

If the viewer doesn't expect constant clarity and a direct Indiana Jones narrative, this film is fascinating for it's location shooting, evoking a more direct sense of hopelessness than even The Spy Who Came in From The Cold, and it's all highlighted by a persuasive music score (one of the first powerful backups by John Williams), as well as the adventurous attempts to escape the constant threat of permanent imprisonment--the sympathetic hero combines with a growing sense of suspense can add up to an entertaining two hours: I found the atmospherics even more fascinating that the labyrinthine plot.

8clanciai

Cold War standard thriller of perils, intrigues, complications and narrow escapes of normal procedure

The problem here is the script which isn't quite coherent, committing the deadly sin of keeping the audience out of touch with what is really going on - a lot of incidents and parts of the intrigue raises question marks that never are answered. This is not a Graham Greene story but an Alistair MacLean story, which concentrates more on suspense and effects than on any psychology that makes sense. Perhaps the book is better than the film, it usually is, and in that case the film suffers from severe logic gaps. Richard Widmark is always good and reliable, he never lets his audiences down, and the cinematography is the great advantage of the film, which needs something to counterpoise its over-meticulous slow action and rather dreary character - Alistair MacLean always made the villains and the enemy (in this case those behind the iron curtain) appear worse scoundrels than they were, exaggerating the justification for paranoia. The music is good, and it is actually one of John Wlliams' first scores, and he seldom made a better one. It's not on par with Anton Karas' unsurpassed suggestive cither music of "The Third Man", like the entire film falls into its shadow, but it is good and suggestive enough. It is neither one of Alistair MacLean's nor Richard Widmark's best shows, but it is interesting, and the Hungarians actually speak Hungarian - the realism is convincing enough.

5planktonrules

High on talk....low on action.

"The Secret Ways" is a Cold War-era thriller with far fewer thrills than I'd anticipated. Most of the time, folks just talk and talk and talk and I can't help thinking it should have been better.

The film stars Richard Widmark as Michael Reynolds, an American adventurer who will do all sorts of things for a buck. His latest assignment is to spirit a leader of the Hungarian underground movement following the unsuccessful Hungarian revolt against the USSR in 1956.

For much of the film, Widmark hangs around Vienna and talks a lot...punctuated by a beating from some thugs. When he goes to Budapest, the same pattern pretty much continues...with lots of talking and communist party officials hanging about him as he tries to move about the city in search of the man he is supposed to slip out of the Iron Curtain. Along for the ride is the confusingly written daughter of the man he is trying to save.

The best thing about this film is probably the wonderful black & white cinematography. It has a noir sort of look and really was lovely. As far as the story and acting go, they take a back seat to the images you see of the cities (of course, being an anti-communist film, they didn't really film in Hungary). As far as thrills go, the movie is just fair...and nothing more. I think it really needed more action and less sarcastic dialog from Widmark. Additionally, Widmark's character seemed to have no real plan...as if you could just easily flee from Budapest to freedom! In fact, it was comically easy...too easy...so much that it really hurt the story. Overall, not too bad...but more of a time-passer than anything else.

6robert-temple

Lots of dark streets, corridors, buildings, cobblestones, and plenty of atmosphere

This is not a superior Cold War thriller but it has its moments, and so much of it was shot on location in Vienna and elsewhere that we get excellent atmosphere. The action takes place in Budapest under the Communists, and all the dark streets at night have no streetlights, no cars, no people. All the streets are cobblestone gleaming in the moonlight, a seemingly endless succession of them considering all the chase and escape incidents in the film. Richard Widmark produced this film, as an excellent vehicle for himself as the hero, and he also directed part of it. It is based on a story by Alistair MacLean. The lead girl is played by Sonja Ziemann, who in real life was married to the actor Charles Regnier who plays "The Count" in the film. Widmark has been sent to find and fetch an anti-Communist resistance leader back to Austria, since the Communists want to torture and kill him. All the action is standard Cold War stuff, though that is not to say it is inaccurate. The action is frenetic and intense. We also don't know for a long time who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. It is well worth reminding ourselves what things were like in Eastern Europe then, lest we forget.

7PaulusLoZebra

A good spy thriller that could have been great

This is a good cold war spy thriller that had all the elements to make it a great one, but it fell short. The culprit was the screen play's habit of inserting "magical" moments when characters emerge suddenly to change the scene without explanation. Because it's a spy film we are supposed to accept and believe that these moments occur because the forces at work are brilliant and well prepared etc., but it happened too often. Otherwise the film is very good indeed, with great on-location shots, excellent cinematography, a fine score, and a uniformly excellent, believable cast. Senta Berger lights up the screen in her US film debut, but her character's arrival, disappearance, then arrival and disappearance again are examples of those magical moments. Kudos to @krocheav who wrote a great review and brought out many of the strong and interesting points of the production, especially the "firsts" for John Williams, Richard Widmark, Jean Hazlewood, Senta Berger, Sonja Zieman and Alistair Maclean. [NB, I saw the film before I read that review.]

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Richard Widmark's wife, Jean Hazlewood, wrote the screenplay. It was her only screenwriting credit.

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Although the film is set in 1956 Hungary. The opening title of the movie is The Austrian-Hungarian Border 1960.

भाव
Jancsi: That would be convenient wouldn't it? You've made arrangements, certain plans to deliver me from my enemies into the hands of Herr Scheffler. You overlooked one thing only - I don't choose to leave my country.
Michael Reynolds: Sir, you don't have a choice, your time is up.
Jancsi: If that is so, Mr Reynolds, I'll die here.
Michael Reynolds: Why do you have to die? What for? I don't believe in it. Look, I came here to save your neck and I'm going to do it, even if you don't want it saved.
Jancsi: Whatever I do with my life is my own business. No one else's.
Michael Reynolds: Oh, you don't understand. In an few days you won't have a life.
The Count: We know our position better than you do.
Michael Reynolds: No, you don't! Scheffler is a pipeline. If he says I've got two days to get you out, you've got two days. Now, you can wait here like sitting ducks or you can do something. But there's a way out. If you're reasonable, you'll take it.
Jancsi: There's no profit for you, don't bother about that.
Michael Reynolds: Alright, I'm being paid. I know you'd like it better if I was some great humanitarian who believed in your cause. Well, I don't even know what your cause is.
The Count: That shouldn't surprise us.
Michael Reynolds: Well, who does outside this room? You could yell your heads off, nobody'd hear you. They aren't listening. They're all like me, I promise you; they couldn't care less. Causes are outmoded. Everybody's learned to live by compromise. Why can't you?
Jancsi: There isn't any compromise. To compromise is to doubt your own convictions. If they're worth having, they're unshakeable.
Michael Reynolds: Convictions are fine, if you live.
Jancsi: Mr. Reynolds, if I can live one day to save one person, that's enough.
Michael Reynolds: But you can do more than that on the outside. Unless you're determined to die a a martyr. And a crackpot!