I like Gregory Peck, Buddy Ebsen, and Broderick Crawford, but the Yankee game was the most exciting part of the movie. A US soldier is kidnapped, and his influential father comes to Berlin to make sure that his return is accelerated. I would do the same thing. Peck tries to put him on a guilt trip about an exchange of "innocent" people for his son. Sorry, but my son would come first. I wouldn't care if they exchanged Eisenhower for him; I want my kid, Joe. Now, if he went straight into the Russian sector with $100,000, I am sure he could have made a deal on his own. The plot is thinner than the margin of victory of the Yankees, but the film is watchable.
Review of Night People
