The actress Nina Foch dominates this late wartime noir with her coolness and steady gaze. The film is based upon a young woman (Foch) having a premonition of a future situation enacted on the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco, where the story is based. Fantasy and reality are very much mixed in this film, and there is plenty of fog to assist in that. Then Foch meets the very man she saw in the dream. There are Nazi agents around, wishing to intercept an important packet of secret documents which he, as an American agent, must deliver in Hong Kong to the Chinese underground. Will the incident on the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog really come true? How deep will the attraction between Foch and the man go? The situation becomes increasingly tense and complex. The film could have been superb, and it is not. It only runs for 63 minutes, so was always intended for a B picture. But it is a good B picture. And it is in any case worth seeing because Nina Foch is so fascinating to watch, as she was then only 21 years old and a real spellbinder, with a deeply enigmatic persona.
Review of Escape in the Fog
