Sorry, this movie sucks

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely Brilliant!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Alan Ladd stars as Captain Webster Carey, who returns to a small village in Italy after WWII. Carey wants to find out who betrayed his O.S.S. team trying to knock out a German-held railroad system. Many villagers of Orta, near Milan, lost their lives during the mission. Upon his return, he is surprised to find out his old love Giulia(Wanda Hendrix)did not die at the hands of the Nazis. To be exact, she is married to a powerful Italian nobleman(Francis Lederer). Carey finds the villagers he thought he was saving from the Germans now hold him responsible for their poverty. Nonetheless, the search for a traitor persists with the aid of Giulia.Kudos to director Mitchell Leisen and Hugo Friedhofer for the music. The theme song "Mona Lisa" won an Academy Award.Also featured in the cast: Joseph Calleia, Richard Avonde, Celia Lovsky, Roland Winters, Frank Puglia and Russ Tamblyn

'Captain' Carey - a movie about how Carey got into the service, his exploits there, his comrades-in-arms??? No, you don't really see Carey in the army at all, and only briefly in the O.S.S at the beginning of the movie - where he's on the same set he's on for the rest of this disaster.Other reviewers have spoken favorably of the set and the 'scenery'! Time to get new glasses, guys. It is possible to shoot on an indoor stage and give the impression you're out-doors - but not here. The terrible lighting gives the game away.Do people who write these reviews actually see the films? The townspeople were NOT upset at Carey because of their financial situation, but because their relatives had been executed by the Nazis as reprisals.There's nothing wrong with betrayal as a theme, but the film-makers made a hash of this one.

Captain Carey,US Army (check the title) comes back to Italy to unmask an informer who gave his group away to the Germans .He thought that the Italian girl who helped him then was dead but she reappears ,à la "Laura" and she might be the one who....unless it's his husband (which is really too bad for he was in love with her of course)or some vile wop.Ther's a good depiction of the Italian village and their hostility to the Yankee whose activities were cause for reprisals among the population.A woman is waiting for her husband 's name to be cleared ,for his young son (played by Rusty (Russ) Tamblyn oddly cast as an Italian kid) can't accept the fact that his dad was a traitor anymore.Mitchell Leisen was in healthier shape in the precedent decade ,and "Captain Carey,US " does not compare favorably with earlier works such as "Hold back the dawn" or "to each his own" .However ,it is not as bad as the precedent user wrote .Average.Mitchell Leisen made a volte face after this ho hum effort and gave a very good thriller "No man of her own" the best version of the William Irish novel.

Mona Lisa deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Song. And Celia Lovesky makes a marvelous Contessa in the center of the intrigue being investigated by Ladd. But, the film moves unbearably slowly in its middle, and the chemistry between Ladd and Hendrix is zilch. Overall, it's just another postwar intrigue film.