. . . Lana Turner informs Clark Gable toward the end of BETRAYED, which documents the REAL reason behind the calamitous failure of the Allie's original "D-Day" Invasion. No, it wasn't the toxic smoke of James Caan's cigar which botched Holland's Liberation during Operation Marketgarden, as a later film entitled A BRIDGE TOO FAR fallaciously contends. Instead, the sordid truth revealed by BETRAYED is centered around the hurt feelings of a flamboyant Dutch "Mama's Boy," who sends thousands of the brave Resistance fighters trusting him for leadership (and later, American and other Allied Paratroopers) to certain death at the hands of the Nazis simply because local patriots had shaved his mom's noggin when she was indiscreet in turning tricks to get extra sausage from a platoon of German Storm Troopers. (Such close shaves are a Dutch War-Time Tradition: Mr. Gable creates a job opening for Ms. Turner by having a local look-alike school teacher sheared, stripped, butchered, and tossed nude into a canal, BETRAYED also reveals.) Victor Mature portrays the joker with a maternal fetish--his fondest memory is running his fingers through Mom's hair every morning in their windmill. About the only thing this flick fails to show us is whether it was Mommy or Sonny whom BETRAYED the Frank Family.

"This dog just does not hunt." Not just that it is contrived and unbelievable in places.....the characters are not believable, none of them. Clark Gable is aging and looks and sounds totally American. Not at all like a Dutch intelligence officer who's still on his game. Lana Turner sounds American though she too is supposed to be Dutch. In her case, we are supposed to believe that being stuck in hiding for days in a windmill with no amenities or frills, or trekking through rough countryside, she still has perfectly coiffed hair and red lipstick that never wears off even a little, the entire time. And then we have the third lead, Victor Mature, also sounding very American. At least Wilfred Hyde White and Louis Calhern and the wonderful, not well known Ian Carmichael sound British and are supposed to be, in the film. I just think having all three leads being so apple pie American pretending to be Dutch who have never set foot in America, is too much to impose on the viewer's "suspension of disbelief." Victor Mature's character development (want to avoid spoilers) that affects the plot heavily also seems "a bridge too far." Many, many better spy films out there!

The flick starts with some of the best action ever. It continues with plenty of action as well as an incidental romance. Shot on location in Holland with a terrific cast, this flick is as good as they get! It has a fascinating plot as well. It's basically a mystery set against the back drop of war. It's a case of who's the traitor? Ultimately, as with all good mysteries, the culprit is revealed. The discovery of the traitor and the traitor's motivation are revealed and make sense to the viewer.Any flick with Clark gable is going to be good. Pair him up with Lana Turner as well as Victor Mature and you know it's got to be good just from the casting alone. The only mystery to me is how anyone could give a vote of less than ten.

It's a bit unfortunate that three of the four Clark Gable-Lana Turner co-starring vehicles have had World War II backgrounds… Certainly two such beautiful people warranted more glamorous trappings… Their fourth and final film together, "Betrayed," had them back in combat suits and steel helmets for a cloak-and-dagger melodrama, the script of which provided too few love scenes to suit the fans of this charismatic duo… But although the fireworks weren't as loud, the romantic moments did occasionally certain rewards, including a recitation of that classic line, "… you're beautiful when you're angry" (Gable to Turner, of course).The location site was Holland and Reinhardt's exquisite Eastman Color camera lovingly captured all the atmospheric beauty and old-world charm of the Netherlands, giving the film a genuine travelog look…Competing with the scenery for front-and-center attention was the film's third co-star, Victor Mature, out of togas and sandals for a change and, during this period of his career, almost overdressed in peasant garb for the highly colorful role of "The Scarf," a dashing Resistance leader…This espionage puzzle drama opens as Colonel Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) is captured by the Nazis… "The Scarf's" small forces liberates him, and he escapes to England where he enlists playgirl Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) as a spy… She is a Dutch widow who had been friendly with the enemy, and by way of redeeming herself, she agrees to become an agent for the British…Deventer trains her for the task and the two fall in love, but their romance is disrupted by a dangerous leak in security with the finger pointing to Carla as the traitor who had sold out to the Germans