"It wasn't a particularly good story, but I liked the atmosphere of Berlin after the war, and I wanted to work again with James Mason." Thus did director Carol Reed explain his decision to return to thrillers with The Man Between. Unfortunately, political conditions forced Reed out of Berlin before shooting wrapped, compelling him to complete the picture in the studio. Even so, the story of East Berliner Ivo Kern (Mason) who rescues Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom), a British woman trapped in the Soviet Zone, is a minor masterpiece of suspense. Despite great danger to himself, Kern takes it upo... n himself to escort Mallison back to her family in West Berlin. After a daring dash through the countryside, the seeming impossible is achieved—but only through a conspicuous act of self sacrifice. Never completely satisfied with The Man Between, Carol Reed grudgingly admitted "It made back its money."Read moreLess
It would be easy to believe that Reed's cold war movie was adapted from a Graham Greene story, given its seductively seedy portrait of a major city - in this case Berlin. But Ebert's novel was more in line with the shabby mechanisms of the spy stories that flourished a decade later (cf. Burton in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold). Here Mason plays Ivo Kern, a amn of twin loyalties in the divided city, involved with Susanne (Bloom) and ending up in the snowladen streets because of his love and duplicity. Afilm heavier on atmosphere than on narrative drive.
It would be easy to believe that Reed's cold war movie was adapted from a Graham Greene story, given its seductively seedy portrait of a major city - in this case Berlin. But Ebert's novel was more in line with the shabby mechanisms of the spy stories that flourished a decade later (cf. Burton in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold). Here Mason plays Ivo Kern, a amn of twin loyalties in the divided city, involved with Susanne (Bloom) and ending up in the snowladen streets because of his love and duplicity. Afilm heavier on atmosphere than on narrative drive.
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