this enjoyable minor noir boast a top cast and and many memorable scene . the big distraction be the complete disregard for authentic accent . the spanish character in the film be play by a frenchman ( boyer ) and a belgian ( francen ) and a greek ( paxinou ) and a hungarian ( lorre ) . and to top it all off bacall be suppose to be an english aristocrat . despite these absurdity and the performance be all very good especially those of paxinou and lorre . but the scene in which boyer and paxinou and lorre meet and and talk in wildly different accent and be a real hoot . and i guess and see a how they be alone and that they should actually have be speak in spanish anyway . it seem pretty weird that the brother warner couldn not find any spanish speaking actor in los angeles . of course hollywood have often have an any old accent will do policy my other favorite be greta garbo ( swedish ) a mata hari ( dutch ) and who fall in love with a russian soldier play by a mexican ( ramon novarro ) . maybe they should have get novarro for confidential agent he would have be great in boyer role or at least in francen ( which would have save greatly on the dark make up budget ) .