Written by Lenore Coffee and Gwen Bristow, film has a slightly stodgy beginning but moves into emotional gear when Orson Welles enters the home of his former wife Claudette Colbert (she doesn't recognise him) and gets mixed up in the moral question as to whether her (and his) son should join the RAF.
Welles is great (he has a magnificent sad presence) and Natalie Wood as his adopted daughter has no trouble with the German lines she has to speak. Colbert doesn't seem to age at all, which is quite funny. Unmistakably scored by Max Steiner, who excels in a tense dinner scene (he loves his timpani).
With George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Ian Wolfe. Shot by Ted Tetzlaff for RKO.
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