Good but who really wants to watch a film where you see a guy get tortured??

Paul Newman and Dominique Sanda in The MacKintosh Man (1973)

Dean Martin and Yvette Mimieux in Toys in the Attic (1963)

Arlene Dahl and Jack Hawkins in She Played with Fire (1957)

Fortunio Bonanova, Benson Fong, Marjorie Hoshelle, and Sidney Toler in The Red Dragon (1945)

Brian Aherne, Diane Baker, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford, Robert Evans, Martha Hyer, Louis Jourdan, Hope Lange, and Suzy Parker in The Best of Everything (1959)

James Cagney, John Emery, and Sylvia Sidney in Blood on the Sun (1945)

Nina Foch, Ernie Adams, Ivan Triesault, and William Wright in Escape in the Fog (1945)

Robert Douglas, Howard Duff, Walter Slezak, and Märta Torén in Spy Hunt (1950)

Lee Bowman and Marguerite Chapman in The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

The instructions our agent were to carry to Ballard were that on a certain day, on receipt of a certain signal, he and the Maquis were to attack all major roads and bridges in the Marignon sector. It didn't matter if they didn't destroy them so long as they attacked them. What was important was that the Germans would deduce from this attack that the invasion of France would take place in that area, thereby forcing them to hold troops there which would be more useful elsewhere.

Well, it won't work now Ballard's arrested.

But the Germans don't know we know that. It'll still work.

Yes, and they'll be sitting there, waiting for a signal. Well, we'll send them one. We'll say that one of our people is coming in with orders for Ballard. He'll land, the Germans will pick him up and try to beat out of him what those orders are.

So he breaks, he talks. And gives away to the Germans the plan to destroy communications in that area.

But the Germans will draw exactly the same conclusions as if they could - which is what we want.

He won't know he's phony. He'll really believe he's got vital information. He'll try his hardest not to talk. Then things will get too tough for him. He won't be able to take it and he will talk.

What, deliberately let them get a man of ours and break him?

Yes. But he must be a man trying to do his duty; devoted, brave, utterly convincing. Well?

This is on Ballard's radio and in his code. The Germans don't know we know.

Get on the phone to Holding Centre and tell Taylor we'll be down this afternoon.

We've been trying to find men who won't crack under pressure. Now we've got to find one who will. But not too easily.

Bradford Dillman in Circle of Deception (1960)

Suzy Parker in Circle of Deception (1960)

Bradford Dillman and Suzy Parker in Circle of Deception (1960)

Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.

Circle of Deception

&quot;A Circle of Deception&quot; is an unusual and good film...though I don&apos;t heartily recommend you see it. This is because the story has a portion where the lead is tortured. It&apos;s not as vivid and brutal as the Nazis would have been...but it&apos;s still darned unpleasant.

Captain Paul Raine (Bradford Dillman) has been selected for a spy mission behind enemy lines during WWII. They say it&apos;s because he speaks French...but it&apos;s really because they think he&apos;ll crack under pressure and they arrange for his mission to fail. Why? Because they&apos;ve fed him false information and hope to convince the Nazis of this lie. However, they never tell Raine...and a woman who has fallen for him knows the truth but she&apos;s ordered not to tell. What&apos;s next? Well, he&apos;s captured and tortured....but what&apos;s next might just come as a surprise to everyone.

The acting is good, the film well made. I have no real complaints other than the story makes for unpleasant viewing...and the very end, the final scene, didn&apos;t seem very realistic to me.

"A Circle of Deception" is an unusual and good film...though I don't heartily recommend you see it. This is because the story has a portion where the lead is tortured. It's not as vivid and brutal as the Nazis would have been...but it's still darned unpleasant.

Captain Paul Raine (Bradford Dillman) has been selected for a spy mission behind enemy lines during WWII. They say it's because he speaks French...but it's really because they think he'll crack under pressure and they arrange for his mission to fail. Why? Because they've fed him false information and hope to convince the Nazis of this lie. However, they never tell Raine...and a woman who has fallen for him knows the truth but she's ordered not to tell. What's next? Well, he's captured and tortured....but what's next might just come as a surprise to everyone.

The acting is good, the film well made. I have no real complaints other than the story makes for unpleasant viewing...and the very end, the final scene, didn't seem very realistic to me.

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