Review of Missing Ten Days

It is very difficult to get any head or tail out of this. It actually starts confusing enough with the hero (Rex Harrison) waking up in a hospital having been shot in his head, while he is certain he just had an airplane accident. Then he is taken for someone else and gets mixed up in all sorts of confusions as a valet in some chateau, and he just follows the games trying to understand anything about them, trying to get a lead by someone somewhere, while too many appear to be having claims on him for different means, and it gradually amounts to a great spying game with sabotage plans and bombs on trains and things like that. Well, it all ends up by his waking up in a hospital again, but this time at least he has a girl by his side. It could be worse, but it could hardly be more confused. At least it is entertaining enough, but you miss some clear red thread thourgh it all and the professionalism of other great train thrillers of the same time, like "Night Train to Munich" and "A Lady Vanishes". Here at least the geographical location is clear enough, it's all around Paris, but intelligence in London is involved, and it appears that the wrong man was killed in that airplane accident...