Opération Amsterdam

I'll keep this brief as many others already cited the plot. The smuggling of industrial diamonds out of Amsterdam lest the Nazis get their hand on them to expand their war effort is just the Maguffin. This could easily have been an episode of the Mission: Impossible TV show.

It's plausible enough (despite my title) and the cast is capable. The fact that it's filmed in an almost documentary style helps considerably. Sans the typical trappings of a romantic subplot and other nonsense it comes off as a tough and gritty mission, though had Hitchcock directed the suspense would've been amped up considerably.

As mentioned elsewhere, some of the editing is a bit choppy. What bothered me the most was the reliance on rear projection for almost all of the car scenes. Yes, it was still being employed in 1959, but such old fashioned trickery was obvious and going out of style.

Enjoyable, semi-realistic espionage. NOTE: the print used on Amazon is not widescreen.