6.0
Lady in the Lake
1946
“Tense, exciting, unusual !”
The Clouded Yellow (1950)
November 21, 19501h 35mEN
6.2
21 votes
Overview
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.
Director
Ralph ThomasWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies
Carillon FilmsGeneral Film Distributors
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User Reviews
John Chard
7.0Love is like a butterfly, as soft and gentle as a sigh. The Clouded Yellow is directed by Ralph Thomas and written by Eric Ambler and Janet Green. It stars Trevor Howard, Jean Simmons, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More and Geoffrey Keen. Taut British spy thriller with Hitchcockian flavours, The Clouded Yellow finds David Somers (Howard) as an ex-secret service operative working as a butterfly cataloguer who finds himself neck deep in a murder plot. Set in the North of England, with some good locations to be spotted by the keen of English eye, the story revolves around the murderou…
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CinemaSerf
7.0Ralph Thomas has assembled a superior cast for this intriguing thriller. MI6 agent Trevor Howard ("Somers") returns from a mission to find he has outlived his usefulness and is to be put out to grass, He finds work at a remote country house were he is to help the ostensibly eccentric owner "Fenton" (Barry Jones) with his butterfly collection. On his way to the house, he gives a lift to their rather course young gamekeeper "Hick" (Maxwell Reed) before meeting the family and their enigmatic niece "Sophie" (Jean Simmons). She, like the butterflies, is a gentle creature and slowly he begins to gai…
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