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Short (43 minutes) and inexpensive (about $30,000), the film is simply titled United States. It was written, directed, and produced by greying, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Eric Ambler, author of distinguished and popular thrillers (Journey Into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). To gather his material, Ambler spent about five weeks in the U.S. viewing close to a million feet of film, spent many more poring over volumes of Americana. The final product is a composite of snatches from U.S. films-by Pare Lorentz, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the MARCH OF TIME-and original scenes photographed in Wembley...
...usual the agents were meticulously trained, as correctly equipped with secret inks, money, jewels and forged documents as second-string characters in an Eric Ambler mystery. Furthermore, one of them was a U.S. citizen and knew his way around. But, as usual, U.S. agents swung into step behind them almost as soon as they landed. Last week, 33 days after their arrival, the FBI announced that both had been arrested, issued a report strewn with dismantled parts of the Nazi plot...
...Jack Kilpatrick, columnist for the Richmond News Leader: "The Saturday night crowds at Sixth and Grace look about the way they used to. The Hotel Jefferson is just about back in commission after that disastrous fire. . . . William C. Herbert succeeded Gordon Ambler as mayor...
This film version of Eric Ambler's A Coffin For Dimitrios goes in for rich, talky theatricality rather than realism. But on its own level it is lively entertainment, distinguished by some better-than-fair performances (Veterans Lorre and Greenstreet, wolfish Newcomer Zachary Scott and mousily appealing Steven Geray...
...picture never attains the excitement of the Eric Ambler novel on which it is based. Orson Welles overacts; Dolores Del Rio, as a dancer who tries to take the engineer's mind off his fears, has a superfluous part, and Joseph Gotten does not match his excellent performance in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (TIME...