hollywood have make a lot of strange movie over the year and but none stranger than this . why this movie get make i will never know and nor how paramount could have think it would sell any ticket in 1947. it be the strange mix of genre i have see in a long time and a movie that truly do not know whether it be try to be a serious war drama or a viennese operetta comedy . it tell the story of a british spy try to get a poison gas formula out of germany in the day just before ww ii begin . ray milland and a fine actor and be stick play the part like an escapee from monty python and all very exaggerated english prep school dialogue . in germany he meet a gypsy and marlene dietrich and who help him to travel under cover a and of course and another gypsy . she play her part like the typical viennese operetta gypsy caricature and a do the other gypsy in the movie . but there be also nazis and who be not funny at all . and then milland find he be start to think like a gypsy and and that be not treat a a joke . sometimes the music be for a light comedy and sometimes for a drama . every time the nazi show up and the film score play wagner and which be funny by itself . this movie could have be a comedy and or it could have take the plight of the gypsy seriously and do a serious job of show how the nazi treat them . both be hint at in this movie and but neither pursue . what we be leave with be a truly strange mish mash of genre that must have embarrass everyone ( except the director ) involve . bizarre .