very literate and intelligent drama about a group of international traveler hold virtual prisoner in the hungary of 1956 by invade russian communist regime . kerr and robards play lover and she a british baroness and he a hungarian freedom fighter try to do his bit for his country . other new york theater star of the period anne jackson and e g marshall play an american couple travel with their two young son and include ronny howard in his screen debut . jackson character be hugely pregnant and not anxious to give birth in a soon to be communist country while she give an impassioned plea in the third act of this film which presage the naturalistic acting style we have come to know today from redgrave and fonda and and streep . lead the pack of soviet wolf be yul brynner and magnificent a a commandant and at his sexiest since he play opposite kerr in the king and i. he be mean and nasty and terribly conflict by his attraction to the lovely and patrician and and heroic kerr . this be one of the great transition film of the latter part of the golden era of american film . do not miss it .