剧中人物大多具有双重身份,每个动作也都隐藏双重意义,令人费尽猜疑。艾德-布鲁迪(吉尔加Gielgud饰)原是一名小说家,后来参与情治工作成为情报人员。第一次世界大战期间,他以理查.亚仙典的化名前往瑞士,同行的还有乔装妻子的艾莎-卡林顿(卡萝饰)和一名行为古怪,绰号将军的杀手(彼得-劳雷PeterLorre饰)。他们的任务是追寻一名德国间谍,并将他刺杀,但想要完成这个任务,首先必须猜出他到底是谁。
谈及招募间谍的秘密工作,首先会想到模糊的数字和牛津剑桥大学的隐秘会面。
When it comes to the secretive business of recruiting spies, images of shadowy figures and covert meetings at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge spring to mind.
早前他曾否认做了间谍,但承认他曾因担心学术受阻而同意与秘密警察联络。
Earlier he had denied he was a spy but admitted he had agreed to communicate with the secret police because he feared refusal to do so would have threatened his studies.
他于1964年秘密投诚,但他的间谍身份作为国家秘密被保留到了1979年,那时首相玛格丽特·撒切尔夫人公开曝出其身份,女皇伊丽莎白二世撤销了他骑士身份。
He secretly confessed in 1964, but his espionage remained a state secret until 1979, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly outed him and Queen Elizabeth II rescinded his knighthood.
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