Paul Newman was able to show some bursts of comedy, rarely scene in his long, brilliant career in this 1963 thriller.
Edward G. Robinson has a field day playing 2 parts here of a physicist and supposedly his East German twin brother, thought of as being long since dead.
Too bad for Diane Baker here. At last, I thought she had a role that she could really get her teeth into. She is forced to work for the Communist East Germans when her supposed dead father turns up living and the Communists want him to change places with his physicist twin. They force Baker to work for them, but even in that, her role is limited.
Elke Sommer serves as Newman's assistant in Sweden when he wins the Nobel Prize in literature. While she is effective in the part as Newman's eventual lover, there are some scenes that she comes across as if she is in a picture with Bob Hope.
The picture is intriguing and tries to bring out that even Nobel Prize winners are human people with frailties as well as all of us.
Edward G. Robinson has a field day playing 2 parts here of a physicist and supposedly his East German twin brother, thought of as being long since dead.
Too bad for Diane Baker here. At last, I thought she had a role that she could really get her teeth into. She is forced to work for the Communist East Germans when her supposed dead father turns up living and the Communists want him to change places with his physicist twin. They force Baker to work for them, but even in that, her role is limited.
Elke Sommer serves as Newman's assistant in Sweden when he wins the Nobel Prize in literature. While she is effective in the part as Newman's eventual lover, there are some scenes that she comes across as if she is in a picture with Bob Hope.
The picture is intriguing and tries to bring out that even Nobel Prize winners are human people with frailties as well as all of us.