Confidential Agent (1945)

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   nbats

   https://archive.org/details/confidential-agent-1945 11 months 2 weeks ago
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   "I don't like melodrama", Lauren Bacall says a couple times in her second film, Confidential Agent, as if tempting fate. Indeed this thriller has many melodramatic elements. It stars Charles Boyer as a Spanish agent in Britain on a secret mission during the Spanish Civil War, Bacall is a standoffish woman who gets embroiled in his affairs by accident, though unlike her previous film's performance, the character is rather humorless. And while that lack of humor works for Boyer, a man in desperate straits, it robs their romance of any real spark. As a spy thriller, there are a lot of twists and turns, but unfortunately, the stakes aren't spelled out at all well until very nearly the end, and I found my attention wandering through most of the first and second acts. Ultimately, there is a lot of incident in this one, but it doesn't hold together particularly well. 5 years 7 months ago

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