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.

This is a very enjoyable espionage drama, with lots of suspense and plot twists to keep the viewer wondering what's up. Victor Mature has a grand time playing a rowdy Dutch underground leader, with Clark Gable as a stalwart intelligence officer keeping a watchful eye on Lana Turner, whose loyalties are a bit suspect. Lots of familiar British character actors as spies and underground fighters. The highlight has got to be the inimitable Anton Diffring in an archetypal Nazi officer role, strutting into Turner's laboratory to ask sly questions and respond to her nervous answers with a smiling " Very interesting!" Worth seeing just for that scene alone.

"Betrayed", which marked the end of Clark Gable's association with MGM, is not one of his best films. Who knows what went on during the production of this movie, but don't look for the vibrant presence of Clark Gable here. For one thing, he appears to sleep walk throughout the picture. He seems tired and it's obvious he looks much older than what his character is supposed to be.The problem seems to be with the direction of Gottfried Reinhardt. The screen play by Ronald Millar and George Froeschel doesn't help the film either. In spite of the good locations where the movie was shot, the action, at times, seems ridiculous and makes no sense at all. By making Carla Van Oven impersonate someone else, how did the creators think she would get away with it?Lana Turner, who was in her thirties at the time the film was made, was made a brunette, which takes away from her natural blonde beauty. Vitor Mature is the only one that has the liveliest part in the movie as "The Scarf". Some excellent character actors are seen in "Betrayed", among them, Louis Calhern, O.E. Hasse, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Roland Culver, Nora Swinburne, and Ian Carmichael.The film appears to have been "betrayed" by the studio, that obviously didn't have too much hope for its success. As Blanche2 has pointed out in her comment, the stars, Clark Gable and Lana Turner, were the real losers as MGM didn't do anything to help them in making this a better film.

As a huge Gable fan Betrayed is by no means the King's greatest movie. However, as with all of his films, it is certainly not bad and I was interested in the characters and the development of the plot right up until the end. Acting-wise, the three stars, Gable, Lana Turner and Victor Mature do a fine job with Turner looking almost unrecognisable from earlier roles. If you're a Turner or Gable fan I'm sure you would enjoy this movie but the film has enough drama, tension and intrigue to keep you interested anyway!