Donald Wolfit ("Col. Price") heads a good, strong, cast in this post WWII whodunit about a group of underground fighters whose leader was betrayed and killed during the war.
This could have been better as a TV play or radio play or anything but a film.It has a very good cast including that scene stealer,Donald Wolcott,everyone favourite German,Anton Differing,and a pre Dracula Christopher Lee.
THE TRAITOR is nothing more than one of those 'old dark house' type mystery films dressed up as something else. There's a definite Agatha Christie vibe going on here (think TEN LITTLE INDIANS) as a group of characters meet up in a sprawling mansion to discover which of their number is a secret Nazi traitor intent on claiming the lives of the rest of the group.
I was really disappointed with that spy thriller : it's slow, no movement, just people listening to each other with no intensity, no particular camera angles, the camera is just placed in front of the actors. The whole movie is boring and the final twist is ridiculously directed, I was puzzled to see that lack of intelligence.
Artime underground friends meet up in an old house in England to work out which one of them betrayed their keader during the war, resulting in his execution.Solid chamber piece with a good British 50s cast which slowly morphs into an Agatha Christie type whodunnit.
This is a wonderful example of post-war British thrillers at their very best. Members of a French Resistance unit meet each year in England on the anniversary of their leaders death at the hands of a traitor in their midst.
You would think with a plot like you'd have in "The Accursed" that the film would be exciting. However, I found it to be a boring, talky mess.
***SPOILERS*** Confusing whodunit that has to do with the betrayal of a member of the groups resistance fighter in occupied France during WWII that cost the life of their leader the fearless and take no BS Irving Garhart a man that you would follow into the very gates of hell if he lead you there. With the annual get together of the surviving resistance members meeting at Col.
This is a sinister post-war drama with a terrible ring of sadness and tragedy about it, as the murderer is himself unaware of the fact that there is no ground for his motive. It's a tragedy of treason, and no one understands anything about it until it's too late.
