GABLE TURNER, MATURE, CALHERN SCORE IN “BETRAYED,” THRILLING DRAMA OF
DUTCH ESPIONAGE FILMED IN HOLLAND
The stellar combination of Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature and Louis Calhern in a suspense-filled story of the Dutch Resistance in World War II and of a Dutch Intelligence officer who falls in love with a girl he believes to be a traitor, brings pulsating entertainment to the screen in M-G-M's "Betrayed.”
This absorbing story of espionage and dramatic conflict is given added impact in the fact that it was filmed almost entirely in Holland, in color, the first motion picture ever to have been made by a Hollywood company in the picturesque country of dykes and windmills. Its swift action takes place against backgrounds of such historic cities as Amsterdam, The Hague. Delft and the countryside stretching to the northern tip of Croningen and the Zuyder Zee, with its spectacular climax the battle of Arnhem with 1,500 British paratrocpers raining from the sky.
Gable enacts the Dutch spy chief Col. Pieler Deventer who, when Holland falls to the Nazis, is able to make his escape with the help of a guerilla band and its leader, a man known only as The Scarf (Victor Mature). Smuggled to England, Deventer is assigned the espionage training of Dutch girl Carla Van Oven (Miss Turner), and falls in love with her. Posing as a German collaborator, Carla is parachuted into Holland to become liason between the British and the Scarf.
The latter's sensational destruction of German installations turns to a tragic reverse with appalling losses of Dutch lives. Realizing that treachery is responsible, Deventer suspects Carla, who accuses the Scarf of luring his own countrymen to their deaths. When the Scarf is captured by the Germans, Deventer is sure that Carla is lying. With the fate of hundreds of men dependent on the outcome, he sets a trap for the betrayer. Will it be Carla or the Scarf?
“Betrayed” offers Clark Gable a brilliant follow-up to his hit performance in “Mogambo.” As the Dutch spy chief, he again is given an
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