michael denison The film makes sense on several levels. The plot and the way it is explained makes sense to me. Ms. Turner is believing every moment, my favorite is at the end. She always was intense and sincere in the way she addressed her work. Gable is different in this role. I suppose he was encouraged to look worn out. ''Mogambo" of the same year recharged his career to the point that MGM offered then to renew his contract, and that Gable declined. I believe it was Lucille Ball that said; ''if you believe in the role and the script, so will the audience"... well something to that effect. Lana always gave her best. View ''A Life of her Own''. The film Cukor made with her 1950. Lana does some wonderful things in the film. What MGM was thinking I do not know, control of these people perhaps. I think Lana was quite unique. Her career lasted for a good thirty years, and she must have had something the audience wanted to see!!! Enjoy, this film is a treasure. Now bring Lana Turner' " The Flame and the Flesh" to video, please.By the way, the color photography is so wonderful in the film. The vague northern light is so true. The interiors often give the impression of looking at a very rare Vermeer painting. The light and shadows coming through the windows. Wanted to throw that in to the mix.

fedor8 Am I getting senile? Is this what Alzheimer feels like? It was hard to follow this movie - and I mean a mere silly little 50s movie at that. For a while there I thought I was losing my mind, or that someone slipped a drug into my drink, or something or other. Scenes seem to be randomly attached for the most part.This old-school cheese also features three leads who all act as if in different genres. Lana Turner thinks she's in a soaper, over-acting her way through this thing with the pathos of one hundred King Kong blonds. She maintains only one facial expression and that's one of a tortured soul, selflessly risking her life for the common good, always with that warm-hearted, worried look: so annoying. Nevermind the fact that her seedy past in no way shape or form fits this kind of behaviour. (We're talking comic-book-like characterization here.) Victor Immature, as childish as ever, lends some much-unneeded lack of seriousness to the proceedings. He must have thought he was filming a broad comedy, grinning like a moron, being as animated as as a pair of breasts in a porn film. Sometimes he was so over-the-top that I half-expected him to impersonate an ape by climbing a telephone poll... Seriously, they should have given him a couple of bananas; that might have helped calm him down a bit, because his thespianism is out of control. Only Clark Gable plays it like it should be played, namely as spy drama requires it.The plot-twist about Victor Immature having become a traitor is okay. What isn't okay is that he became one because they shaved his Mommy's head! That's a bit lame, isn't it?... One would think that double agents and traitors were in it for the money, and occasionally perhaps for idealistic reason, too, but not because their Moms had been turned into skinheads. Besides, we never find out why his mother is suspected of being a Nazi accomplice. Also absurd was having an experienced, competent agent such as Gable hiring a woman who judging by her past couldn't be trusted with keeping a banana away from Victor, let alone a secret.The movie is visually great, but one thing that did bother me regarding appearances is that Gable and Turner had practically the same hair-style! Lana has never looked worse, thanks to the crappy, short-haired, brunette look that some demented producer or insane hair-stylist cooked up here...Someone here complained about the American accents. I disagree. It's the lesser of two evils. Or do some people in all earnestness think that the actors here should have lent even more of a cheese factor to this somewhat hokey movie by sounding laughable, doing unconvincing Dutch accents?

bkoganbing Clark Gable and Lana Turner made their fourth and final film together in Betrayed which also was Gable's final film for MGM where he reigned as king for 24 years. Also along for the ride in this World War II story is Victor Mature.Gable is a member of the Dutch army in exile which is part of the overall allied army that will shortly be invading cross channel. Turner is an agent that he has recruited of whose loyalties he has some qualms about and Mature is a reckless Dutch resistance leader.One of these three is a traitor, a person responsible for several failed missions of the resistance. Even more important the traitor leaked information to the Germans about Field Marshal Montgomery's Operation Market Garden which got the British Army hung up in Arnhem. Who could it be?For a more accurate picture of that operation, I would strongly urge you to watch A Bridge Too Far. In that film you will see none of the events or characters that are shown in Betrayed.This was Gable's last film at MGM, Dore Schary was cutting loose from a lot of the stalwart contract players that kept Leo the Lion on top of the heap for 20 years. Gable looks like he's just going through the motions and the cast follows suit.Turner is somewhat interesting as the femme fatale of ambiguous loyalties. Mature looks as bored as Gable, though he does try to invest his part with some of that heavy lidded beefcake charm he was known for.Not the best work for any of the stars involved.

whpratt1 Recently viewed this film and enjoyed seeing actors like Victor Mature("I Wake Up Screaming" '41); Clark Gable("Gone With the Wind") and Lana Turner("Imitation of Life" '59) and Louis Calhern("The Asphalt Jungle '50). This film kept you on the edge of your seat, always wondering if Lana Turner was a counter-spy for the Germans or the Dutch people during WW II. There was lots of action blowing up Nazi installations, and the struggles that the Dutch people had with the German occupation of their country. All these actors showed their mature age over the years,(Age is a great GIFT) however, Clark Gable, Victor Mature and Lana Turner never lost their charms for making very warm romantic scenes without having to take their clothes off! Try to catch this film on TV, you will enjoy seeing Classic film actors really at work.