The film makes sense on several levels. The plot and the way it is explained makes sense to me. Ms. Turner is believing every moment, my favorite is at the end. She always was intense and sincere in the way she addressed her work. Gable is different in this role. I suppose he was encouraged to look worn out. ''Mogambo" of the same year recharged his career to the point that MGM offered then to renew his contract, and that Gable declined. I believe it was Lucille Ball that said; ''if you believe in the role and the script, so will the audience"... well something to that effect. Lana always gave her best. View ''A Life of her Own''. The film Cukor made with her 1950. Lana does some wonderful things in the film. What MGM was thinking I do not know, control of these people perhaps. I think Lana was quite unique. Her career lasted for a good thirty years, and she must have had something the audience wanted to see!!! Enjoy, this film is a treasure. Now bring Lana Turner' " The Flame and the Flesh" to video, please.By the way, the color photography is so wonderful in the film. The vague northern light is so true. The interiors often give the impression of looking at a very rare Vermeer painting. The light and shadows coming through the windows. Wanted to throw that in to the mix.

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.

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!

Despite good performances from Lana Turner, Clark Gable and Victor Mature (in a colorful role as "The Scarf"), and some pretty location photography of Holland (filmed in Eastmancolor), there are script problems that render BETRAYED a contrived spy tale about the Dutch underground resistance to Nazis. As one reviewer noted, "at times it is hard to tell who Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Victor Mature are spying for" -- and the revelation that there is a traitor among them comes as no great surprise.Still, the story moves at a fair pace, Lana looks gorgeous even with a brunette hairdo, and the aging Clark Gable gives a quietly underplayed performance in his final role at Metro. Victor Mature comes off best in a colorful pivotal role. Wilfred Hyde-White, Louis Calhern and Roland Culver are wasted in supporting roles.All in all, an average spy melodrama bolstered by some fine location photography.For more about the film and Lana Turner, see my article on LANA TURNER: DANGEROUS CURVES in the Spring Issue 2002 of FILMS OF THE GOLDEN AGE magazine.