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(Universal-International) G Cert. DIDN’T expect at this late time to find myself caring at the end of a film whether Errol Flynn got his girl, and that I did care a bit in Istanbul was due more than anything else to the girl, Cornell Borchers. Remembering The Divided Heart I knew she could act; but remembering also Oasis, which didn’t help her reputation or anyone else’s, I had to be persuaded again. It’s one of those stories of a return to old haunts, the scene of an old love affair, with Mr Flynn wearing the rather dissipated charm one expects. Besides Istanbul itself there are stolen diamonds, paid assassins in the alleys, planes to come and go in and Nat "King" Cole to sing in the hotel where the lovers used to sit and drink vodka gimlets. It’s only another romantic melodrama, but a love story is always a love story, and this one is real enough-for the girl, anyway-to make the film passable entertainment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 26
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166ISTANBUL New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 26
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