Returning to Tokyo some years after the war to reclaim his business, Bogart discovers that his wife is still alive - she has though remarried and has a child. Bogart, now running an airfreight business is then blackmailed by a Japanese gangster who can prove that his ex wife worked for the Japanese in the War. He is not keen but soon discovers why his ex wife did this and that the child is in fact his, leaving him in a difficult position because the gangster wants to use Bogart's planes for some firming criminal activity - or else.
Whilst this does prove in the last half hour or so to be quite an exciting thriller when it goes into more typical Bogey territory, what goes before this is a rather messy concoction. Thus is all clearly influenced by 'Casablanca', but the rights and wrongs around who Bogart's ex wife should be with and indeed Bogart's sometimes strangely unsympathetic character don't seem to fit comfortably with the story. Worth a look, but nowhere near the quality of day a Casablanca.
Whilst this does prove in the last half hour or so to be quite an exciting thriller when it goes into more typical Bogey territory, what goes before this is a rather messy concoction. Thus is all clearly influenced by 'Casablanca', but the rights and wrongs around who Bogart's ex wife should be with and indeed Bogart's sometimes strangely unsympathetic character don't seem to fit comfortably with the story. Worth a look, but nowhere near the quality of day a Casablanca.