I had to double-check the date of this film when confronted by a McGoohan at least twenty years older than I had expected! Thankfully it was just the make-up department!
I was intrigued by this movie when it premiered when I was fifteen. The Nazis and all of their ugliness is magnified when I read up on the "Lebensborn" program.
Lee Remick is Alicia Browning, a New York City casting agent who learns of the death of her son Mark (Robert Bowman) in Germany. In Germany, she discovers what Mark had - that Alicia is a child of "leibensbaum" - German for "fountain of life, Himmler's program for the breeding of pure Aryans - and that Dr Grigor Bamberg (Richard Munch) has arranged for Mark to father a child Maria to continue the blood line.
