The Traitors

1962
1h 11min

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Patrick Allen, Jacqueline Ellis, and James Maxwell in The Traitors (1962)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaEspionage story telling how British and American security agents outwit ruthless and cunning traitors trying to steal secret project plans.Espionage story telling how British and American security agents outwit ruthless and cunning traitors trying to steal secret project plans.Espionage story telling how British and American security agents outwit ruthless and cunning traitors trying to steal secret project plans.

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6malcolmgsw

Very interesting spy thriller

Clearly this film was inspired by the revelations of various communist spies in the establishment and actual spy rings.This is a very neat and fast paced thriller with an exciting climax.It is also interesting for those of us living in London at the time what it was like.I have to say it looks rather down at heels with the grime of years of coal staining the buildings.No supermarkets yet,so a United Daries grocers shop next to the surgery with its windows full of tins.The cinema used is the Coronet Notting Hill.I am pleased to say that it is still operating and still looks pretty much the same inside.Anyway a thoroughly entertaining film.

6daoldiges

Solid Components but Suspense is Sparse

The look, sound, and feel of The Traitors are all strong and well done. All of the performances are solid as well, in particular all the leads fulfill their parts well. The film provides an authentic grit to the proceedings and in that respect it is engaging and good. The weak part for me was the story. Yes, in the broad sense it's a solid story but as for the details and specifics that might create some suspense and draw the viewer in, those elements are just never fully realized. It's a shame because I really liked all of the characters and enjoyed spending time with them but any suspense and sense of urgency were just too short on supply.

7sjaytaylor

A visual document of long-lost London

It's one of those old B pictures with a lot of location shooting in London, which now makes for rather more compelling viewing than the film itself (which is very similar in feel and treatment to Sidney Lumet's altogether superior "The Deadly Affair" from five years later).

The cinema which features extensively and in which one of the spies meets his end is neither of those mentioned in previous reviews. It is actually the Grange Cinema on High Street KIlburn, dating from 1914 and Grade II listed, as a result of which is therefore still there, albeit now functioning, as so many do, as a third-world evangelical church.

10michaeldarvell

The Traitors (1962)

The Traitors is a excellent film compared to most other second features of the same period, 1962. It has a very good story by Jim O'Connolly, writer-director of another fine B movie, Smokescreen, in a tale of spies in London exchanging government information in a cat and mouse chase between the secret agents and the security men. The characters are well-rounded and have good, sparky dialogue that is often humorous too which gives them more humanity. Most second features of the 1950s and 1960s were just pot-boilers to while away an hour or so before the main feature came on. Good and credible performances by reliable British actors such as Patrick Allen, James Maxwell and Harold Goodwin etc make The Traitors a taut and suspenseful piece of film making by director Robert Tronson. The cinema used by the spies to exchange information is not the Coronet at Notting HIll, which is on a left-hand corner. The cinema in The Traitors is on a right-hand corner and looks like the ABC Fulham Road, at the corner of Drayton Gardens.

7crumpytv

Well Constructed.

A neat spy thriller set in London and there are a lot of interesting shots of the streets, London in the rain etc. You could almost smell the chlorine in the swimming baths.

Some of these B movies have some dodgy acting, but this is pretty credible throughout. Patrick Crane followed this up with a successful TV series, Crane. He want on to become in demand for his voice overs and narrations.

If the girl in the poster is supposed to be Mary it is not representative of her role in the film.

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The locations are very accurate. Portobello Road Market can be seen as Patrick Allen and James Maxwell track the doctor to his surgery, which is just off Portobello Road. The market ( which was then a normal market with some second hand stalls and shops) can be seen. The extra's were clearly normal members of the public who can be seen watching the filming and showing surprise as they walk into shot. The Dr's wife catches a 15 bus from Ladbroke Road ( which runs parallel to Portobello Road) alighting at Horse Guards, then walking to St James Park. The No 15 ran at the time via Ladbroke Grove through Trafalger Square. The Dr takes a taxi and catches a bus in order to meet with his contact. He alights at Halfpenny Steps (a pedestrian bridge, now replaced, across Regents Canal) in Maida Vale on the other side of which was the now demolished, Wedlake Street 'Baths' (swimming pool, baths and wash house) featuring the denouement of the film. In reality this is only a 10/15 minute walk from 'his' surgery but as a spy he is no doubt (unsuccessfully) ensuring he is not followed.

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There was no way the microphone could have been planted behind the grille, and of course there is no explanation of how this was supposed to have been done.