
Delia Donovan is the decoy and works for a pair of jewel thieves. Her job is to seduce Viktor, who has in his possession a necklace of priceless emeralds, which he is bringing from Turkey to Marseille for his father.

Is it worth your time? If you have a weird obsession with 1940s-style setups and don't mind a movie that feels like it’s trapped in a dusty suitcase, maybe. It’s for the folks who love black-and-white melodrama and people talking in rooms for hours. If you need pacing, modern editing, or anything resembling a pulse, yo...

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"Is it worth your time? If you have a weird obsession with 1940s-style setups and don't mind a movie that feels like it’s trapped in a dusty suitcase, maybe. It’s for the folks who love black-and-white melodrama and people talking in rooms for hours. If you need pacing, modern editing, or anything resembling a pulse, you’ll probably be bored to tears within twenty minutes. There’s this one scene where Delia is trying to act all mysterious and seductive near the railing of the ship. It feels like..."
Philipp Lothar Mayring, Ludwig von Wohl
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