This Flynn in another role that suggests Bogart, although it's actually a remake of the 1947 Fred MacMurray/Ava Gardner film 'Singapore'. The earlier film took place in that title city during World War and shortly afterwards. This one moves the location and moves the time forward to 1951 and then 1956, although Flynn is a war veteran who now flies planes, (not seen in this film), anywhere for a price but who has fallen in love with a woman, (Cornell Borchers, an Ingrid Bergman wannabe of the time). And now wants to settle down. A broach he purchases for her turns out to be full of diamonds, which gets him involved with jewel thieves and results in the apparent death in a fire of his lady love. He's hidden the diamonds but is deported and comes back five years later to retrieve them. He not only encounters the same group of bad guys but is stunned to see Ms. Borchers again, happily married to someone else, (Thorin Thatcher). It turns out she has amnesia and has no idea who she is.
Should he try to re-enter her now happy life? Will he find the diamonds? Will he beat the bad guys? Yes, yes and yes. Someone named Martin Benson plays the head bad guy, an appreciator of the fine things of life who is not above having thugs beat Flynn up. Someone else named John Bentley plays the inevitable police inspector. Of greater interest is Werner Klemperer in what might be described as the Peter Lorre role as an untrustworthy associate of the bad guy.
The film has an obvious Casablanca-like situation at the end except it's Flynn going off in an airplane, which, per a stewardess, has been asked to return to the airport in the very last scene. Would they do that?
Should he try to re-enter her now happy life? Will he find the diamonds? Will he beat the bad guys? Yes, yes and yes. Someone named Martin Benson plays the head bad guy, an appreciator of the fine things of life who is not above having thugs beat Flynn up. Someone else named John Bentley plays the inevitable police inspector. Of greater interest is Werner Klemperer in what might be described as the Peter Lorre role as an untrustworthy associate of the bad guy.
The film has an obvious Casablanca-like situation at the end except it's Flynn going off in an airplane, which, per a stewardess, has been asked to return to the airport in the very last scene. Would they do that?