Well, it was okay especially for the first half and I thought it was a bit like Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935). Afterwards I realised that the director, Ralph Thomas had made the remake in 1959 and with Kenneth More who has a smaller part in this one. It is lovely with Jean Simmons and there are some great bits with the location shots in Newcastle and Liverpool. It should have been wonderful but the problem is that although we have Trevor Howard, his ex-spy action and his butterflies with the worrying Simmons and her piano and killing it is more about a past event. The other problem is that Howard is much too old to be a lover, with the 20 year old Simmons.
Review of The Clouded Yellow
