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Circle Of Deception

1960, Movie, NR, 100 mins

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Another cold-blooded British espionage film, where "expendables" are written off in the blink of an eye. Andrews, as the British intelligence chief, devises a scheme to plant false information with the Germans during WW II in Normandy, by dropping an agent among them who doesn't realize the real nature of his mission. Andrews thinks that the Germans will believe the agent's story more if they have to beat it out of him. Andrews' assistant, Parker, is told to become friendly with a Canadian officer, Dillman, whom Andrews plans to drop, but her friendliness turns to love. Dillman is parachuted into Normandy, captured, then tortured until he gives away the planted information. Later he is rescued by the French resistance and, back in England after the war, filled with self-loathing for having been a coward who cracked to the enemy. He starts drinking himself to death. Parker reappears in his life and convinces him that he was really a hero, "the one man on his own against both sides." leave a comment
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