Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . 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.

vincentlynch-moonoi Clark Gable and Lana Turner were great together -- at least in their previous pairings. Perhaps here, Gable was getting just a bit too old play a spy, although in WWII, any such thing was possible. And then, this is Turner as a brunette, which I found very distracting (not to mention her unconvincing lip syncing). It's not a bad film, but it's also not of the caliber of "Honkey Tonk", "Homecoming", or "Somewhere I'll Find You".The supporting cast is strong -- Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Theodore Bikel -- though none of them have strong parts. This film is all about Gable and Turner.So, while this is not my favorite Gable film -- and I do prefer him as he matured -- it's not bad...I usually don't enjoy war films at all, and this did hold my attention reasonable well...although Turner was perhaps not the most logical female spy. Ah well...perhaps that makes it a bit more interesting. But, if three Gable-Turner films worked well, a fourth would also. Right? Well...not quite.

ragosaal "Betrayed!" is just a bit above average World War II film in the espionage genre. Even though I can't help watching it every once in a while I'm not really sure where its attraction is for me. Perhaps it is that I like World War II espionage films and so I don't get too demanding with movies that deal with such matters.Considering that in my opinion this product has an interesting story about courage, love and mainly treason, lots of action sequences, beautiful outdoor locations in Holland and two important stars in the male and female leading roles (Clark Gable and Lana Turner) I must agree with one reviewer here that thinks the flaw is in the direction work. Gottfied Reinhardt was a not very prolific and average director whose best work was probably the interesting "Town Without Pity" (1961). In "Betrayed!" he doesn't succeed with a movie that had chances of delivering more impact and strength; none of the main actors look too enthusiastic about their characters and it shows.Gable doesn't add much to his brilliant career in his role as a Dutch intelligence officer though his impressive screen presence always helps him. Lana Turner looks beautiful as a brunette in spite of the just standard performance she delivers as an infiltrated spy for the allies. Victor Mature as a partisan chief ("Scarf") is the only one that shoes interest in what he is doing as usual, but he also overacts terribly as usual. Anton Diffring is also there in one of his nasty Nazi officer roles he played so well.My feeling about "Betrayed!" is that a better film could have been made with a more strong and imaginative directors, but as it came out this picture is just for fans of the genre.

MartinHafer Before I say anything else, I need to talk about the film score. While one reviewer pointed out how they liked it, I found that after what seemed like the 800th repetition of the same calliope music, I was ready to scream! I truly hated the music and it really didn't seem all that appropriate to the film--sounding more like circus or organ grinder's music than something for a WWII flick.Now apart from all that, the film was a reasonably competent film and Gable, Turner and Mature all did fine. However, being a die-hard Clark Gable fan, I really wish he had more to do in the film. While Victor Mature got 3rd billing, he really seemed much more the star in the film and he definitely came off best of the three.Apart from the acting, the film technically seemed only okay. Not bad, but certainly not good either. The biggest problem is that although the film was made on location in Holland (a big plus), the actors never sounded or acted Dutch in the least. Case in point, Lana Turner calling a young Dutch lad "Jan"--with a j-sound. It should have been pronounced "Yan"--and those responsible for the film should have noticed or cared. But, in the end it looked and sounded like hardly anyone connected with the film was Dutch--very strange indeed when it is a location shoot! As for the plot, it seemed to drag a little bit but was also pretty unusual and interesting--and it's because of that the film managed to score a 6.