Hitchcock was working under wartime restrictions when he shot this French-language film in Britain and the limits imposed are apparent. How the director must have ached for a chance to give the audience his usual tourist's view of an exotic location, in this case Madagascar. Instead there are sets consisting of small rooms and one more sizable courtroom. The purpose was propaganda and it probably worked, although now of course it seems crass and dated. Nothing special about it, no Hitchcock touches or anything. It's fast-paced and tightly written movie urging the French to resist the occupation and showing them how it's done, while at the same time warning of the dangers involved. It's not really worth going out of one's way for except that it's a historical curiosity.
Review of Aventure malgache
