Review – Circle of Deception

How rare it is to see premise and execution intersect like this. A secret agent (Bradford Dillman) gets dropped into occupied France in 1944. The trick is that he doesn’t know his superiors are deliberately sending him in to get captured, hoping that he’ll be tortured and eventually reveal the fake plans they’ve given him. The drama is well paced, with adequate time given to the set up (particularly the romance between our hero and a woman who knows what’s going to happen but can’t tell him), the evasion and capture, and the interrogation. Some of the torture sequences are particularly graphic, especially for 1961. Worth seeing