Saturday, October 8, 2011

Currently Watching - The Journey (1959)

This is a pretty dark movie but Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner really are great together. Also Brynner speaks Russan and wears military uniforms and leather. Very hot!

In the immediate aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, a group of international travelers are stranded at Budapest airport. They are told they will have to take a bus to Vienna, several hundred kilometers away. The trip is uneventful but on the Hungarian side of the border they are stopped by the Soviets and forced to stay in a hotel until their clearance to leave the country is received. Soviet Major Sorov is genial and treats them well, but rightly suspects that they may not all be foreigners. He takes a particular interest in a British traveler, Diana Ahmore, and the others begin to feel they are being kept there because of her. Throughout, Hungarian resistance fighters mount a futile campaign of resistance against their new oppressors.

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