The Devil Makes Three - 1952 - 6/10
Captain Eliot returns to postwar Munich, looking for the family he knew … before.
Older members did not survive Allied bombing.
The daughter, however, who the captain still sees as a teenager, has ripened over the years.
And works as a B-girl in the nightclub circuit.
There is so much in this film to recommend. The nightclubs recall heady Weimar days.
The whole mystery of the black market and smuggling. Location filming in Munich, Austria, and Berchtesgaden.
Yet the romantic element between Gene Kelly and Pier Angeli drags the proceedings into snoozeville.
The pair have no onscreen chemistry, delivering their exchanges as if they are addressing mannequins.